Sentences with phrase «regeneration in species»

The study of the genetic and molecular pathways underlying regeneration in these species provides insight into the dormant molecular pathways for regeneration in humans, raising the prospect therapies can be developed to trigger human regenerative capacity.

Schmidtea mediterranea, a flatworm native to southern Europe and Tunisia, turns from brown to white when exposed to sunlight for 24 or more hours, as scientists discovered when they were studying regeneration in the species.

Not exact matches

The researchers surveyed a range of elevations, forest types and fire severities - including in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains, and North Coast regions - to determine which factors promote and limit natural conifer regeneration and how different conifer species respond after a fire.

«Environmental licensing and market certification of logging concessions need to take this into account, and review minimum preconditions in terms of volumetric quotas of roundlogs harvested per species and regeneration standards over multi-decade logging cycles.»

«It may in fact be that regeneration is ancestral, but that newts have species - specific adaptations that allow it to have such spectacular regenerative capacities compared with other vertebrates.»

Now, a new University of Utah - led study, appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that targeted forest regeneration among the largest and closest forest fragments in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil can dramatically reduce extinction rates of bird species over time.

Seed banks were created in order to guarantee the conservation of species, but they require a periodical regeneration of the seeds.

Maintenance of somatic tissue regeneration with age in short - and long - lived species of sea urchins.

Cebrià highlights that «as there are genes which are similar to egr - 4 in other lineages — for instance the human species — , this function may be particularly interesting to understand the process of regeneration in metazoans.»

Rogers» findings, published this week in the peer - reviewed academic journal Nature Communications, show the potential for invasive predators to cause easily overlooked yet pervasive consequences as a result of extinguishing species that are important for the regeneration of plant species.

An Iowa State University scientist outlined in recently published research how an invasive species of snake is affecting the regeneration of trees on the island of Guam over a span of decades.

The number of species has declined as the trees have been cut down and the woodland reduced in size, and overgrazing has prevented natural regeneration.

Reactivating head regrowth in a regeneration - deficient planarian species.

Liu, C. Selck, B. Friedrich, R. Lutz, M. Vila - Farré, A. Dahl, H. Brandl, N. Lakshmanaperumal, I. Henry & J. C. Rink Reactivating head regrowth in a regeneration - deficient planarian species.

Yin explained: «The fact that we've identified a genetic signature for limb regeneration in three different species with three different types of appendages suggests that nature has created a common genetic instruction manual governing regeneration that may be shared by all forms of animal life, including humans.»

Knowing that blastema formation is a key part of limb regeneration in animals with this capability as adults, researchers Benjamin L King and Voot P Yin looked at three regenerative species — the zebrafish, axolotl and the bichir — with the aim of finding out what genes control this event.

«Humans have very limited capacity for regeneration, while other species like salamanders have the remarkable ability to functionally regenerate limbs, heart tissue and even the spinal cord after injury,» said lead researcher Karen Echeverri, PhD, assistant professor in the department of genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

In just seven years our hard work has payed off with the return of native species and the regeneration of native habitat.

The interest in biomorphism recurs in the nearly ten - foot - tall sculpture Animal Treasures, a «fountain» of species, with each smaller creature held by the scruff of his neck by a larger creature, raising ideas of repetition and regeneration while also creating a kinetic effect through the ball bearings installed in the scruff of each «mother's» mouth.