Sentences with phrase «species differences across»

And in Panama, scientists will use detailed datasets of species by species differences across regions to understand which characteristics enable some species to thrive under warmer or drier conditions, while others perish.

Not exact matches

Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object.

In recent years scientists have found that members of many species, from hermit crabs to rats to fish, have unique dispositions, demonstrating consistent behavioral differences over time and across varying situations.

Here's how DNA and connectivity relate: When movements and mating across blocks of territory are taking place smoothly, gene flow is unrestricted, and scientists don't find a difference in DNA between the members of a species or subspecies.

«So even though BAM is conserved across Gram - negative bacteria, there are structural and functional differences from species to species that can likely be exploited in developing species - specific therapeutics to combat multidrug resistance.»

The biological factors underlying the differences in genome dynamics observed across species are likely to be complex and remains to be explored.

«To study the difference, we reared Daphnia (water flea species) in the lab across a range of both chloride levels and food levels,» says lead author Arran Brown.

· Natural differences between pristine forests and variation in forms of disturbance to the forests — such as logging and fire — across large landscapes means that simplification of species is not playing out equally everywhere.

The researchers identified fast - evolving species by comparing differences between groups with those obtained when simulating evolution at a constant rate across all lineages, and they found clear differences between tooth evolution and brain evolution.

«I'm really interested in how hormones and behavior evolved,» she said, «and really the only way to study that is to look across the spectrum of species that share this hormone to see what are the similarities and differences in what it does.»

The leading spider expert on the Spintharus genus in earlier decades, Herbert W. Levi (1921 - 2014), had concluded that differences he observed in these spiders across a wide swath of geography represented variation within one species.

«If geneticists can't capture these repeats and determine structural differences in genomes, they have problems understanding the organization of genes and comparing genetic variation within and across species.»

Therefore, the aims of my PhD were to 1) determine thermal tolerance ranges of early development and survival of coral larvae 2) assess the extent to which this tolerance varies across space, specifically I aimed to test whether high latitude species have a broader tolerance and 3) test whether difference between adult coral assemblages across a hypothesized dispersal barrier (Great Barrier Reef to Lord Howe Island) can be predicted by life history traits related to the dispersive larval stages (e.g., mode of larval development, mode of larval nutrition), adult ecology, and / or environmental parameters.

Shultz, S. & Dunbar, R. I. M. Species differences in executive function correlate with hippocampus volume and neocortex ratio across nonhuman primates.

We describe the global distribution of such loci throughout the prokaryotic kingdom and highlight the differences in loci structure across the various bacterial species.

Our health study database, searchable by species or area of study, houses our funded research that is making a difference in the lives of animals across the globe.

Responses of larvae from across world regions indicate overall trends despite disparate environments and ecology as well as differences in the sensitivities of tropical and polar species.