Sentences with phrase «studied by spider»

They turned to six genes that have been well - studied by spider biologists seeking to understand relationships between species.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Scientists extracted DNA from spider webs to identify the web's spider architect and the prey that crossed it, according to this proof - of - concept study published November 25, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Charles C. Y. Xu from the University of Notre Dame and colleagues.

An Australian trapdoor spider may have crossed the ocean from Africa rather than being the product of geographical separation, according to a study published August 2, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Sophie Harrison from The University of Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues.

Bird, Prendini, and co-author Robert Wharton, a professor at Texas A&M University, studied the jaws of 188 camel spider species representing all solifuge families from historical collections at the Museum and elsewhere, including material collected during expeditions by Prendini and Bird over the past decade — no easy feat.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

Sun decided to study a fraction of the peptide sequence that gave the glue its adhesive ability by attaching a heterogeneous hydrophilic peptide segment inspired by spider silk proteins.

Based largely on studies of snakes, spiders and other species dangerous to our own, it is thought that most venom genes arise through the mechanism of gene duplication followed by mutation and repurposing (which scientists refer to as neofunctionalization).

Scientists integrated tarantula DNA into the study alongside anatomy, geography and behavior gleaned from spiders that were gathered by the researchers, contributed by «citizen - scientists» and borrowed from museum collections, to deliver the most comprehensive overview of tarantulas ever assembled, according to the new study, published online Feb. 4 in the journal ZooKeys.

By capturing 58 male nursery - web spiders in the wild, researchers have now addressed both issues in a study published online this month in Animal Behaviour.

This is Euryopis flavomaculata, one of nearly 150 Dutch spider species contributed by this study to the growing global library of DNA barcodes.

So our study looked at whether spider silk's properties could be «enhanced» by artificially incorporating various different nanomaterials into the silk's biological protein structures,» said Pugno.

As a neuroethologist who studies how the nervous system works, Gil Menda of Cornell University's Hoy Lab was intrigued by the challenge of figuring out a spider's complex visual network.

The authors of the present study investigated how sexual cannibalism may promote male choosiness by pairing captured virgin male and female orb - weaving spiders randomly in the laboratory and observing which sex was more selective and which mates were selected.

Eight new whip spider species have been found in the Brazilian Amazon, almost doubling the number of known charinid whip spider species in Brazil, according to a study published Feb. 17, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alessandro Ponce de Leão Giupponi and Gustavo Silva de Miranda from Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil and the Center of Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), respectively.

By studying the remarkable patterns packed into the millimeters - small body of the rainbow peacock spider, scientists say we could harness similar «super Not to be confused with Echo Team Masaru Echo Enatsu (Japanese: 江夏 優, Enatsu Masaru) is a...

Ideal as an alternative to creating posters or spider diagrams to show comprehension of study, by creating backdrops or full scene's with props and figures.

By studying live spiders, comparing and contrasting different types, and creating iterative versions of their drawings, students construct their own understanding about arachnids, which the teacher can easily assess through the works of art.

One - off specials where numerous from the famous Bertone BAT series of aerodynamic studies, to an infamous sci - fi like Astral spider designed by Carrozzeria Boneschi for Rafael Trujillo the dictator of the Dominican Republic.

2015 Chew - Bose, Durga, Mamma Andersson: crepuscular studies of the everyday, The Guardian, 8 January Lund, Christian, Three Artists on a Spider by Louise Bourgeois, Huffington Post, 4 January

I remember school excursions in India sitting by the river studying king fishers diving for their dinner and every day we would check in on our giant spider that lived in the school room.»

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.

Although not explicitly tested here, one possibility suggested by the present study is that, in much the same way that stimuli that historically have threatened survival (e.g., snakes, spiders) are considered to be prepared fear stimuli [stimuli that are more readily fear conditioned and more difficult to extinguish (39, 40)-RSB- attachment figures may be prepared safety stimuli, that is, stimuli that historically have benefited survival and thus may inhibit conditioned fear responding.