Sentences with phrase «reproductive patterns»

Peter Bernhardt, Ph.D., a professor of biology at SLU and research associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in Sydney, New South Wales, has been studying reproductive patterns in wildflowers in six countries for over 40 years and, like most dedicated scientists, thrives on new discoveries such as how bees respond to the color of the flowers they pollinate.

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A new paper in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology explores lifetime reproductive patterns in African elephants.

Throughout the 1960s, researchers began to notice strange reproductive patterns in wildlife across the United States.

The scientists looked into the medial preoptic area (mPOA) of the brain, which earlier scientific works have associated to social and reproductive patterns in all vertebrate species, from fish to human.

«It is possible that we in modern societies have more individual freedom to express our genetic predispositions because social and normative influences are more relaxed, and this leads to the genetic differences among us explaining more of the reproductive patterns,» said Dr Bolund.

Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, Dr da Silva tested this theory using data from studies of Volvocine algae, in which species vary considerably in their reproductive patterns: some in which two mating types produce gametes of the same size that can move (motile); others that produce motile gametes of different sizes; and others in which one mating type produces small, motile gametes and the other mating type produces large non-motile gametes (males and females).

The business is to be found in the advent of a sedan version of this popular midsize coupe, a must development at a time when the baby boomers» reproductive patterns are making midsize four - door sedans increasingly popular.

To better understand the full extent human activity has on their ecosystem, researchers plan to continue studying the reproductive patterns of bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf.