Sentences with phrase «salamander from»

A healthy fire salamander from a captive - bred collection at a British zoo.

Scientists first collected the salamander from a

Saving salamanders from amphibian killer may take extreme measures.

Collins and Jancovitch examined salamanders from a Phoenix bait shop and found viral strains similar to those killing salamanders in Colorado.

Martel and Pasmans detected the fungus in samples of salamanders that other researchers had collected in Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan — including a museum specimen more than 150 years old — but not in salamanders from other parts of the world.

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In the transition from salamanders to snakes.

Our wildlife sanctuaries around the state are living laboratories where scientists, naturalists, and volunteers monitor and measure a wide range of natural occurrences from stranded sea turtles to osprey migration to salamander counts.

Building fairy houses under the canopy of the beech trees, turning over logs to look for salamanders, and harvesting fresh vegetables for snacks from our gardens are just a few of the ways that children engage all their senses.

Trekkers collect a rubbing from a marker with a relief of the salamander, beaver, fern, or lady's slipper that might be found nearby.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

Biologists fear chytrid is carried from pond to pond on the boots of outdoorsmen, and from country to country in the tanks of pet salamanders or frogs.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

While the maximum speeds ranged from 6 to 15.7 miles per hour, the salamanders» tongues achieved breathtaking acceleration — up to 450 g's.

Using data from high - speed video recordings of 96 feedings, the researchers measured the speed of the salamanders» tongue thrusts as the animals ate crickets, termites, and other bugs.

Everything from insects to birds to salamanders could be affected by the arrival of worms.

From sea slugs to salamanders, many animals can naturally tap into solar power — and we're learning how to make more

A team of Danish researchers from Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark therefore studied the hearing of lungfish and salamanders, which have an ear structure that is comparable to that of different kinds of early terrestrial vertebrates.

The recent declines and disappearances of many frogs, toads, and salamanders have been blamed on a number of causes, including pathogenic infection, pesticides, pollutants, increased UV radiation from ozone depletion, and local drought spurred by climate change.

Although abundant in captivity, the salamander has nearly disappeared from its natural habitat — and that is a problem

Three sequences matched collagen peptide scripts from chickens, one matched a frog and another a salamander; the other two matched multiple organisms, including chickens and salamanders.

Now the same team have screened over 5,000 amphibians from four continents to ascertain the threat the new disease presents to other species.The results, published today in the journal Science, show that B. salamandrivorans is very dangerous to salamanders and newts, but not to frogs, toads and snake - like amphibians called caecilians.

Since the fungal disease has initially been limited to a small area, an attempt is being made to prevent it from spreading further: The European Union has launched a research project to create the scientific basis for the control of the «devourer of salamanders» as quickly as possible.

Lips and a colleague, Cornell University Professor Kelly Zamudio, screened about 1,400 frogs, salamanders and newts from sites in North and South America and found no trace of the fungus.

Some closely related viruses turned up at far - flung sites in Arizona and Canada, while distantly related viruses appeared among dead salamanders recovered from within a single pond.

If so, then the idea of activating the mechanisms — dormant or blocked in our species — that give salamanders such formidable powers of recovery from injury suddenly doesn't seem quite so far - fetched.

DO N'T LET THE FUNGUS GET ME North America's extreme diversity of salamanders (lungless Ensatina eschscholtzii from the West Coast shown) could face catastrophic losses if the deadly Bsal fungus invades via the international live - animal trade.

New data from the fossil record offers a new perspective on the evolution of the enormous regenerative capacities of modern salamanders.

Salamanders hatched from eggs that have been doused with predator - scented water showed reduced activity — a common defense mechanism — compared with those from eggs in odorless water.

In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Benjamin L. King, Ph.D., and Voot P. Yin, Ph.D., identified these common genetic regulators in three regenerative species: the zebrafish, a common aquarium fish originally from India; the axolotl, a salamander native to the lakes of Mexico; and the bichir, a ray - finned fish from Africa.

«A salamander or a lizard undulates from side to side the same way a fish moves through the water, so one would reasonably expect that in Ichthyostega too,» says Ahlberg.

When these animals began to die as well, Spitzen - van der Sluijs rushed them here, about 2 hours away, where Martel and Pasmans cultured a fungus from a salamander clinging to life.

The declines became so alarming that RAVON removed 39 fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) from the park, safe - guarding them temporarily in an employee's basement.

Accidentally introduced from Asia, the fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) sickens or kills several amphibian species with large ranges in Europe, such as the fire salamander (left), so it will likely spread across the continent.

Studies they have led since their initial discovery show that Bsal — probably introduced from Asia by the pet trade — has the potential to wipe out salamander populations across Europe.

Then in April 2014, they got a tip from a Dutch man vacationing in Belgium who had come across a dead fire salamander in a forest near Robertville.

Unlike frogs suffering from Bd, which thickens and hardens their skin, the salamander had ulcers all over its body.

Studies of tiger salamanders and the Asian salamander Hynobius retardatus have found that cannibal morphs develop when larvae are crowded in large numbers and are mostly unrelated (same species but from different parents).

The study quantified the rate of decline and also showed that sexually mature fire salamanders are much more likely than juveniles to get infected (probably during fights with rivals or mating), which prevents them from reproducing and makes the population less likely to recover.

Ranging from New York State to Texas, it is one of America's most common salamanders.

SALAMANDERS BEWARE Skin lesions on the face of a fire salamander show the ravages of a chytrid fungus species discovered last year, now suspected of escaping from Asia.

The black - bellied slender salamander, for instance, would have no problem spreading from its home range around Santa Barbara to the more northern central coast region.

The salamander died 34 to 40 million years ago, yet aside from its skeleton, many of its soft tissues are preserved: an initial examination identified skin and a lung.

In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratory.

The fungus is thought to have arrived in Europe via salamanders or newts imported from Asia for the pet trade.

First identified in birds in the 1960s, this sense, called magnetoreception, has since been documented in animals ranging from bees and salamanders to sea turtles.

Any fire salamanders that arrive from elsewhere will likely get infected by newts or toads.

The team had also hoped that the fungus would become less virulent — as often occurs when a pathogen reaches a new host that lacks any immunity — but that hasn't happened: Fungal spores taken from the last fire salamanders in the Belgian forest, when dripped onto the backs of healthy salamanders in the lab, were just as lethal as those collected early in the outbreak.

The current study by Lips and her colleagues, Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders, was led by two professors from Ghent University in Belgium — An Martel, who first isolated B. salamandrivorans, and Frank Pasmans — with contributions from researchers at 20 institutions worldwide.

According to results from previous infection trials, most salamander species in Europe are likely just as vulnerable to Bsal.