Sentences with phrase «small body size»

Some of them are also associated with illnesses such as prostate cancer or characteristics such as small body size.

The island rule predicts that populations of small mammals evolve larger body size on islands than on the mainland, whereas island - bound large mammals evolve smaller body size than their mainland counterparts.

Smaller body size tends to mean a shorter lifespan and a shorter generation time.

Environmental degradation could have made the birds» diet poorer, or warmer temperatures could have given an edge to birds with smaller body sizes, as they are better able to cool off.

Trophy fish have also adopted smaller body sizes in response to fishers» preference for big fish (which, if killed, do not breed).

The short snout and small body size suggest that the features the species is most known for — a long snout and large body size — evolved later than previously thought.

A shaggy coat, cropped tail and ears or small body size makes it difficult to read the signs.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

Lee thinks small body size let some theropod dinosaurs explore and adapt to all sorts of new niches and lifestyles.

Lee thinks small body size let some theropods explore and adapt to new environments and lifestyles.

«These findings suggest extremely strong selective pressures against small body sizes which shifted the evolutionary spectrum towards the larger bodies we have today.»

«This study provides compelling evidence that the iconic small size of birds results from a chance but sustained pattern of selection for smaller body size spanning millions of years,» says Gregory Erickson of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

Paedophryne dekot and Paedophryne verrucosa are only half of the length of the three new additions to the frog diversity of Papua New Guinea, with an astonishingly small body size ranging between 8 - 9 mm.

shy guy small body size read manga a lot didn't get into anime until i was 17.

An allele of the IGF1 gene is known to cause small body size in dogs, including the Yorkie.

«Thus, the use of small populations artificially bred for desired traits, such as smaller body size or coat color, may have led to an accumulation of harmful genetic variations in dogs.»

Conversely, small or miniature breeds suffer from conditions associated with small body size or short legs, for example, patellar luxation as a result of shallow patellar grooves (so the kneecap slides out) For example, Pomeranian.

SM / J, created by MacArthur in 1939 from crosses involving 7 inbred strains - among them DBA - followed by inbreeding with selection for small body size, is segregating white - bellied agouti (Aw) vs. nonagouti (a) at the agouti locus.

«If an adult were to eat that amount of arsenic, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but for a baby's small body size, it adds up,» he says.

People with younger babies may prefer a smaller body size (14» x 18»), while those with toddlers may prefer something larger (18» x 23»)

«The gradual evolution of smaller and smaller body size would have allowed the bird predecessors to explore novel niches and body plans off limits to their larger relatives,» he says.

But if you live in the tropics and are trying to avoid overheating, it should be better to have a smaller body size, which would give relatively more surface area through which to shed heat.

The study also showed that treeshrews on smaller islands tend to have smaller body size.

The small body size suggests that the species had a limited range, and did not migrate like the large whales of modern oceans.

But when the researchers corrected the bone mass measurement for the heights of this group, who tended to be shorter, they found that the low bone mass was partly due to their smaller body size.

The team believes that small body size might have been key to maintaining evolutionary potential in birds, which broke the lower body size limit of around 1 kilogram seen in other dinosaurs.

Its small brain, low cranial vault shape, absence of a chin, smaller body size and limb proportions all point to a pre-Homo sapiens ancestry.

Co-author Heidi Parker, a geneticist at NHGRI, says that because humans initially bred dogs for specific traits — say, smaller body size or calm temperament — selection created a population «bottleneck» that narrowed the genetic variation in offspring, leaving them with just a few specific clusters of variable genetic regions.

Results showed that male listeners preferred female voices with high pitch, breathy voice and wide formant spacing that correlated with a smaller body size, while females preferred to hear low - pitched male voices with low pitch and narrow formant spacing that suggested larger body size.

The researchers tested whether a similar principle applied to human vocal attractiveness by asking male volunteers to listen to a female voice that was systematically altered for pitch, voice quality and formant spacing to signal a smaller body size.

If you're thinking that achieving a smaller body size will bring you joy, it's time to re-evaluate.

For some folks, making a shift towards a healthier lifestyle — eating more plants, moving their bodies more — is linked with shrinking into a smaller body size.

Young children are especially vulnerable because of their small body size.

Some of the hallmark variables of humid southern regions include high fish intake, low use of salt, high rice consumption (and low consumption of all other grains, especially wheat), higher meat consumption, and smaller body size (shorter height and lower weight).

I'm 23 yrs old I'm bout 5»10 average body not to big not to small body size I love sports outdoors dancing and ain't scared to try diffrent think I do work have my own apartment and truck

The small body size makes it easy to maneuver whether it be around trees in the woods or other vehicles in a parking lot.

The fourth - generation Santa Fe does away with the smaller body size of the «Sport», all markets now receiving a longer wheelbase iteration that Hyundai says is «compact enough to easily park and manoeuvrer, yet spacious and flexible enough inside to comfortably carry your family or active lifestyle».

It's much roomier inside than it looks and with the small body size, it can fit into any parking space.

This problem commonly occurs to dwarf hamsters or baby hamsters due to their small body size.

Other factors predispose cats to becoming ill once they have been exposed to a poisonous substance; these include their small body size, their ability to hide so that exposure is not immediately evident, and because cats, being specialist carnivores, lack certain liver enzymes, they are unable to breakdown certain chemicals.

Aggressive supportive care for sick individuals is required, as their small body size and fragile nature makes succumbing to illness a common occurrence.

The authors write: «The population of patients undergoing surgical fracture treatment clearly differed from the osteosarcoma population, with a much younger age distribution and smaller body size.

Lacking predators, there is something to be said for maturing early (at a small body size) and having more time to produce more offspring.

What they have in common is a huge aspect ratio display that gives users as much display area for the smallest body sizes possible.