Sentences with phrase «studies population biology»

Dr. Lips studies population biology and the community ecology of amphibians.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

Soulé, it's worth noting, got his Ph.D. at Stanford in the 1960s, where he studied population biology under Paul Ehrlich, an influential early voice in the contemporary environmental movement.

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, Advances in experimental medicine and biology; integrating population outcomes, biological mechanisms and research methods in the study of human milk and lactation (2002/05/25 ed., pp.207 - 216).

You are an unusual academic omnivore: You have mixed physics and math with biology and population studies.

The results have implications both for researchers trying to understand the rapid decline in frog populations across the globe and for conservationists looking to save the animals, said Vance Vredenburg, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study.

But translation is not one - way; the insights gained at the bedside, and from clinical and population - based studies, will spawn hypotheses, enabling scientists to probe the mechanisms of disease in new ways and ultimately enriching basic biology.

«This new method to simultaneously screen many vampire bat samples for both diet and population structure is of value to future studies on vampire bat biology and for assessment of vampire bat related pathogen transmission risks.

A team of Smithsonian biologists led by Brandt Ryder worked closely with Ben Vernasco, a doctoral candidate in biology at Virginia Tech, on a study that aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on U.S. Department of Defense land.

The new study «shows that the fly has the potential to drive populations of the most common species of Darwin's finch to extinction in several decades,» says biology professor Dale Clayton, senior author of the study published online Dec. 18 in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Meeting this need will require collaboration among multiple fields of study including molecular biology, population genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology.

By studying Anthropology, you open the door to the opportunity to reflect on how and why different people and populations have developed similar and different characteristics in their biology and behaviors.

«Bumblebees are intriguing creatures to study,» explained Dr. Sadd, «but growing threats to their health are affecting bee populations around the world, making it especially critical to improve our understanding of their biology.»

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

«Lastly, the technique we have pioneered will likely be a valuable tool for scientists and clinicians studying the biology of complex nanoparticle populations,» Dr. Zhang said, «and may aid in the development of diagnostic tests using them as biomarkers.»

In a commentary published in the September 18, 2014 of Nature, he wrote, «Non-European populations are harmed because they are not studied as intensely, and clues that could reveal new aspects of disease biology are missed.

This two - volume reference integrates this exciting area of biology, combining the prerequisites for a general understanding of adult and embryonic stem cells, the tools, methods, and experimental protocols needed to study and characterize stem cells and progenitor populations, as well as a presentation by the world's experts of what is currently known about each specific organ system.

«The study of «interactions,» both in developmental biology and in population genetics contexts, brings up unexpected but direct and useful connections with statistical physics.

Professor Crandall studies the computational biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics, developing and testing of Big Data methods DNA sequence analysis.

The field of study called population genetics has played a critical role in the development of modern biology, helping unite...

Feb. 11, 2016 — The first study that directly compares Neanderthal DNA in the genomes of a significant population of adults of European ancestry with their clinical records confirms that this archaic genetic legacy has a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology.

I am applying principles from physical and computational sciences to the study of biology to find patterns in these interactions, to obtain insight into population genetics, human evolution, and diseases including cancer.

Conserving spawning aggregations not only conserves the large reproductive individuals that sustain the population, but, according to our study, ensures the success of their larvae,» said lead co-author Megan Donahue, an associate professor of marine biology at the University of Hawaii and member of the «Pretty Darn Good» Control Working Group at NIMBioS who helped produce the study.

Williams, who studies diseases that are differentially distributed among human populations, uses the tools of evolutionary biology to examine the role that genetics plays in health disparities.

Although the original inception of the paleo diet had its roots in evolutionary biology as well as in anthropological ethnographic studies of contemporary hunter - gatherers and ancient foraging populations, the newfound rationale for adopting a paleo template lies in its emphasis on those foodstuffs delineated in the peer - reviewed literature to have the most nutritive value.

«There are few if any studies,» write Mike Fitzgerald and Dennis Turner in their contribution to The Domestic Cat: The biology of its behaviour, «apart from island ones that actually demonstrate that cats have reduced bird populations.»

Early Foundation - funded studies focused on using reproductive biology to maintain genetic diversity in captive wild cat populations.

This study will utilize cutting edge molecular biology techniques (i.e. DNA analysis) to characterize the bacterial populations found in naturally occurring cases of feline periodontitis.

Although canine models of various cancers garner increasing interest as in vitro systems suitable for studies of basic biology and drug development, the fact that breed specificity is observed for many types of cancer has excited geneticists who are anxious to localize susceptibility genes that have proved intractable in human families and populations.

John S. Coleman & Stanley A. Temple, On the Prowl, WISCONSIN NATURAL RESOURCES MAG., Dec. 1996, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, at http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1996/dec96/cats.htm (Coleman and Temple conducted a four - year study of cat predation in Wisconsin); see also Michele Ameri, The Australian Cat Dilemma, TED CASE STUDIES, CASE NUMBER: 396 (1997) available at http://www.american.edu/ted/cats.htm; B. M. Fitzgerald & D. C. Turner, Hunting behavior of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations, in THE DOMESTIC CAT: THE BIOLOGY OF ITS BEHAVIOUR 123 - 147 (D.C. Turner & P. Bateson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2000);

This is the question that artist Katarina Pirak Sikku asks in her project on Swedish racial biology's studies of the Sámi population.

Plans are also underway to develop a captive breeding population, as an «insurance policy» against the loss of the species in the wild, and this may also aid further studies into the species» biology and its venom, without the need to capture wild individuals.