Sentences with phrase «species of flying»

The threats are particularly severe for those species that live on islands scattered across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, which is most of them — 53 of the 65 species of flying fox are island - dwellers.

There are five species of flying snake, all native to south - east Asia.

Hundreds of eggs belonging to a species of flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs are giving scientists a peek into the earliest development of the animals.

The researchers then compared their measurements to those of arm bones taken from 69 other species of flying dinosaurs and modern birds.

Cerretti and colleagues describe the first unambiguous oestroid fossil: a new species of fly (Mesembrinella caenozoica) discovered in amber from the Dominican Republic.

There's no gold medal in sight, but at least one species of fly manages to avoid obscured vision during flight by borrowing a page from Olympic ice skaters.

There are about 120,000 described species of fly, McAlister says, 60,000 of which the museum has in its collection.

In the northeastern U.S., a species of fly has evolved to feed on a species of honeysuckle introduced to North America less than 250 years ago.

Over the course of two weeks the international team discovered several species previously unknown to science — including a new species of scorpion and likely new species of fly, water bear, and bacterium — living just miles from a major metropolis.

A species of fly larvae have adapted to wade unscathed through the plant's deadly juices, to steal the insects it catches

«The predominant species of flies found visiting and pollinating B. lasianthum was Chrysomyia megacephala Fabricius (Calliphoridae: Diptera), commonly known as blowflies.

For example, Desplan's team has studied two different species of fly; in one, the distribution of light sensitive molecules in the eye is random, while in the other it is deterministic (the light sensitive molecules are arranged in regular rows), suggesting that nature can employ both approaches.

My view about extinctions is largely that the saving of important / cuddly species depends on specific conservation efforts, and that I don't really care if some arctic moss or species of fly doesn't make it from Siberia to Greenland.

Not exact matches

Evolution has been demonstrated in the lab many times using fast - breeding species such as fruit flies, and there are tons of other evidence for it.

There have been millions of fruit - fly generations observed and the best scientist could do was show that the smarter flies have a better chance of survival under certain conditions, thus improving the genetic cesspool with - in the species.

There are several species of insects that infest ristras, including various moths, fruit flies, and other flies.

Attracted to the brightly - colored pods, many species of African birds raided the small garden plots and then flew further inland, spreading the seeds and returning the chiles to the wild.

Prime season for several species, the fish being flown in is at the peak of its flavor.

While the rest of his species went to Mexico for the winter this tough bird flew East to startle jays and ornithologists in Ossining, N.Y.

Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory — If you're looking for something unique and special, this 11,000 square foot greenhouse is home to over 100 species of exotic plants and flowers, and for an extra treat — there are free flying butterflies fluttering around everywhere you turn!

Take a stroll in the park and show them the various species of birds flying around.

In a high - flying illustration of how global warming appears to be changing New York's natural landscape, a new study by a state researcher and an experienced birdwatcher has found that more and bird species are being found higher and higher on a well - known Adirondack mountain.

While many humans enjoy a daily caffeine fix, scientists have found that caffeine repels Drosophila melanogaster — a species of fruit fly often used as a model for studying human conditions and genetics.

The scientists compared the genetic sequence of five related strains of the species, looking for orphan genes and examining the life cycles of the various genes in the fly genome.

He's observed thousands of bat species up close (he's even had a few fly up his shirt and pant leg), and has learned there's more to appreciate than fear when it comes to bats.

Together with Christian Schlötterer, the Head of the Institute, and other colleagues, Nicola Palmieri investigated the genes in a European species of fruit fly (Drosophila pseudoobscura).

«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).

Researchers would ultimately document in flying squirrels a wider variety of aerodynamic modifications and flight types than had been described in any other species of animal glider.

When the nonmammalian analog to SIRT1, Sir2, is blocked in lower order species like fruit flies, the healthy effects of low - calorie diets, versus high - calorie diets, are neutralized.

Species boundaries will be defunct, and genes will fly about, resulting in an orgy of creativity.

Like nectar bats, many species of hawk moths (sometimes called sphinx moths) can reach nectar inaccessible to other flying creatures.

Notably, for biting flies (midges in the genus Culicoides, some species of which are vectors of wildlife disease), 80 percent were attracted to the filament lamp, 15 percent to the compact fluorescent and only 2 - 3 percent to each of the two different LED lamps.

Plus, it is essential to get routine down in determining the species of larvae, pupae, adult flies, and beetles — which is a frustrating, painstaking process.

In this study, Dr Allan Debelle from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences recorded the love song of male fruit flies from the species Drosophila pseudoobscura under different experimental conditions.

Along the way, we meet creatures such as the Bornean bristlehead, a single - species family that inhabits the high canopy in deep rainforest; the helmet - billed vanga, with a beak that looks like it is made from blue plastic; and Odontopteryx, which, cruising Miocene seas on wings spanning up to 5 metres, was one of the largest flying birds ever.

They downloaded sequences of more than 700 genes from organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans and compared genes from closely related species.

While little to nothing is known about when the vast majority of butterfly and moth species fly, eat and mate, the study provides a basic and much - needed framework by compiling existing data, said lead author Akito Kawahara, associate professor and curator at the museum's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

North America's largest flying land bird is also one of the most endangered species on Earth.

Central to their research have been two related species of fruit flies, Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana, which diverged from a common ancestor more than 260,000 years ago — a «blink of an eye» in evolutionary terms, Pitnick says.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

Drosophila melanogaster, a dipteran (two - winged) insect, is the species of fruit fly that is commonly used in genetic experiments; it is among the most important model organisms.

The bot fly family (Oestroidea) is the most diverse group of calyptrate flies, which is a clade of some 22,000 living species that comprise about 14 % all flies.

The survey found 579 species, mainly insects, spiders, beetles, mites, flies and ants, in 50 detached houses in the leafy suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina.

So far Reed has established a proof of concept in Drosophila fruit flies, a commonly used model species in laboratories across the world.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

This summer evolutionary biologists Marlene Zuk and Nathan Bailey from the University of California, Riverside, published a paper on the subject that included examples from dozens of species ranging from dung flies and woodpeckers to bison and macaques.

Göran Arnqvist of the University of Umeå, Sweden, reasoned that these kinds of tactics might eventually make one population of flies unable to mate with another — creating a new species.

Many of the same molecules have been implicated in both declarative and nondeclarative memory and in species as varied as sea slugs, fruit flies, and rodents, suggesting that the molecular machinery for memory has been widely conserved.

More than two decades ago, in one of the first papers using gene sequences to find signatures of natural selection, scientists hypothesized that a molecular change in an enzyme gave the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly species its superior ability to metabolize alcohol.