Sentences with phrase «studying salamander»

Researchers are also studying the salamander's ability to regrow amputated limbs and organs.

The study was prompted by the research of Curators» Professor Ray Semlitsch, who has been studying salamander populations in the Appalachian Mountains since 2005.

They say this regardless of whether your name is actually Liam, which is weird, though still probably not the weirdest thing about people who study salamander nostrils.

Not exact matches

Studies of chimpanzees, monkeys, newborn chicks, salamanders and even honeybees point to two parallel systems for representing quantities.

As an undergrad at Kenyon College in Ohio in the 1950s, Spievack had performed amputations on salamanders and studied the way the creatures regenerated their limbs.

By studying the animals» sense of vibration, the researchers were able to demonstrate that both lungfish and salamanders detect sound by sensing the vibrations induced by sound waves.

A team of Danish researchers from Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark therefore studied the hearing of lungfish and salamanders, which have an ear structure that is comparable to that of different kinds of early terrestrial vertebrates.

Two new studies published in the journals Proceedings of the Royal Society B and The Journal of Experimental Biology show that lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear.

The study, «Relationship between diet and microhabitat use of red - legged salamanders (Plethodon shermani) in southwestern North Carolina,» appeared in the journal Copeia.

«Giant salamanders, geckos and olms: Vanishing species diversity in Siberia: Study of the development of amphibians and reptiles through twelve million years of geological history.»

A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.

«We were able to show salamander - like regenerative capacities in both — fossil groups that develop their limbs like the majority of modern four - legged vertebrates as well in groups with the reversed pattern of limb development seen in modern salamanders,» said Dr. Jennifer Olori of State University of New York at Oswego, co-author on the study.

Studies they have led since their initial discovery show that Bsal — probably introduced from Asia by the pet trade — has the potential to wipe out salamander populations across Europe.

Studies of tiger salamanders and the Asian salamander Hynobius retardatus have found that cannibal morphs develop when larvae are crowded in large numbers and are mostly unrelated (same species but from different parents).

Not much is known about Bsal in the United States, so the first step is studying U.S. salamanders to see whether the fungus has already made the jump.

The study quantified the rate of decline and also showed that sexually mature fire salamanders are much more likely than juveniles to get infected (probably during fights with rivals or mating), which prevents them from reproducing and makes the population less likely to recover.

A new study comparing the forces acting on fins of mudskipper fish and on the forelimbs of tiger salamanders can now be used to analyze early fossils that spanned the water - to - land transition in tetrapod evolution, and further understand their capability to move on land.

Salamanders are particularly good organisms for studying how locomotion onto land evolved, as their anatomy and ecology is similar to the earliest tetrapods.

Semlitsch's study measured the population density and biomass of the Southern Redback Salamander in the Ozark Highlands in Missouri.

Researchers have figured out how to quantify personality and are showing in studies of great tits, salamanders, stickleback fish, lizards, and social spiders why different personalities persist, how they might lead to speciation, and the role they might play in the spread of information and disease.

In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laboratory.

The current study by Lips and her colleagues, Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders, was led by two professors from Ghent University in Belgium — An Martel, who first isolated B. salamandrivorans, and Frank Pasmans — with contributions from researchers at 20 institutions worldwide.

«For a green alga, spotted salamanders are stressful hosts: New study deciphers an exceptional vertebrate - algal relationship.»

A new study sheds light on the genetic balancing act these lady salamanders perform to survive and thrive.

This paper by Urban and Richardson presents an elegant series of studies of how foraging rates have evolved in multiple populations of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) that coexist with different types of predators.

Professor Elly Tanaka studies regeneration using the salamander as a model system.

He arrived at the MDI Biological Laboratory last year from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute with the goal of studying the role of the immune system in limb and heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander (see sidebar).

Echeverri and her colleagues study an amphibian known as the axolotl or Mexican salamander.

He is replicating the salamander studies he did at MDIBL on mice at nearby Jackson Laboratory.

Georgia Tech College of Sciences: Study shows large variability in abundance of viruses that infect ocean microorganisms Science Daily: Strolling salamanders provide clues on how animals evolved to move from water to land NSF News From the Field: Strolling salamanders provide clues on how animals evolved to move from water to land

The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question — why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, can not — may lie with the body's innate immune system, according to a new study of heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, an organism that takes the prize as nature's champion of regeneration.

The next step is to study the function of macrophages in salamanders and compare them with their human and mouse counterparts.

Her new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology investigates the stresses experienced by the limb bones of tiger salamanders during terrestrial locomotion.

The new study of shrinking salamanders gives credence to the theory that as global temperatures rise, animals tend to get smaller.