Sentences with phrase «striking species differences»

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Despite differences in brain size, the researchers found striking similarities between primate species of gene expression in 16 regions of the brain — even in the prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher order learning that most distinguishes humans from other apes.

«The difference in species numbers between these two groups is striking.

Lücking and his team collected and sequenced DNA from 376 samples of the leafy lichen and discovered 126 new species among them, many with striking physical differences, according to their study published in June.

This indicates that a comprehensive and experimentally supported annotation effort of the human genome simultaneously highlights regions with striking differences in gene organization to other species and may indicate evolutionary events specific to the human lineage demanding further functional analyses.