It's home to fish like bluegill and alewife, along with
smaller organisms like water fleas, algae, and bacteria.
Bacteria and
small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.
Not exact matches
The «microbiome,» or the collection of
organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number of major pharma companies
like Merck and
smaller biotechs alike.
We simply can not give an answer anything
like that we seek on the
smaller scale of teleonomic performance of machines, computers and
organisms.
Despite that archaeal cells were simple and
small like bacteria, researchers found that Archaea were more closely related to
organisms with complex cell types, a group collectively known as «eukaryotes».
The current study, jointly conducted by York University and Columbia University researchers, suggests that
Small Ubiquitin -
like Modifier (SUMO) modifies proteins bound to active genes, in order to prevent unfettered gene over-expression that can be harmful to the
organism.
«Dolphins evolved from relatively
small - brained animals
like cows and hippos into this large - brained, highly specialized aquatic
organism,» says Caro - Beth Stewart, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York, Albany, who was not involved in the research.
Despite that archaeal cells were simple and
small like bacteria, Woese found that Archaea were more closely related to
organisms with complex cell types, a group collectively known as «eukaryotes».
While 140 million pieces might sound
like a lot, Arabidopsis has the
smallest genome of any flowering plant, which is the main reason it was selected as a model
organism for genome sequencing.
But here at home, a much
smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals
like birds and whales.