Sentences with phrase «urchin from»

A dried sea urchin from my childhood inspired the shape of the shade, and the contrast between the discus - shape body and the spiky weave highlights this very beautiful technique.

Byrne et al. [61] characterize the stunting effect of ocean acidification on the arm growth response of echinoplutei larvae of 15 species of sea urchin from different climatic regions (tropical, temperate, polar) and with different bathymetric distributions (intertidal and subtidal).

Then she meets Vaan, an urchin from the Dalmascan capital of Rabanastre.

Using the Dazl RRM domain, we searched for Dazl homologs in the genomes of acorn worm from Hemichordata (Saccoglossus kowalevskii), sea urchin from Echinodermata (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), lancelet from Cephalochordata (Branchiostoma floridae), and sea squirt from Tunicata (Ciona intestinalis).

«A friend came to Little Park and brought me a tray of sea urchin from Hokkaido.

Inspired by dynamic shifts in pH due to upwelling — the movement of nutrient - rich water toward the ocean surface — the researchers took urchins from the Santa Barbara Channel and brought them into the lab.

Michael Russell at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues studied purple sea urchins from the west coast of North America.

[19] However, the removal of multiple predators can effectively release urchins from predator pressure and allow the system to follow trajectories towards kelp forest degradation.

The Truant Officer abducts enemy Urchins from their posts.

I have a hurricane lamp full of shells and urchins from my beach house area and other trips I've been on (Fiji, Vanuatu, Queensland) which remind me of the fun we had there and also provide some of the beach into my home.

Not exact matches

And, Harney Sushi is so committed to the cause that some traditional, high - demand sushi items have been eradicated from the menu, such as Toro, Bluefin Tuna, Big Eye Tuna, certain types of Yellowfin, Unagi, Red Snapper, Hamachi, Maine Sea Urchin and Octopus.

In this respect, he was following on from Zico, who was almost turned away by Flamengo as a scrawny street urchin standing at just 4» 9».

Many people are having a go — from a woman who works at a fish market by day and cultures sea urchin meat by night, to high - school students culturing shellfish in their refrigerators.

While it isn't uncommon to find sea urchins attached to elevated rocks in an attempt to snap food from ocean currents, NOAA scientists aren't quite sure why so many have chosen to gather here.

Scientists from Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center confirmed the presence of dozens of species native to Japanese coastal waters — including barnacles, starfish, urchins, anemones, amphipods, worms, mussels, limpets, snails, solitary tunicates and algae — that were on a large floating dock in Japan that washed ashore at Agate Beach near Newport, Oregon in June 2012.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

They crack into sea urchins by dropping them from heights onto the rocks.

Sea otters off the Alaskan coast play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems: By dining on sea urchins, the animals help preserve kelp forests that feed a range of species, from barnacles to bald eagles.

The scientists documented almost 100 percent mortality of purple sea urchins and six - armed sea stars over the study area, which stretched from southern Mendocino County to Bodega Bay in Sonoma County.

Sea urchins use spines for protection from predators and for locomotion.

Sea urchins have seemingly countless spines each made from a single calcite crystal.

In Venomous, molecular biologist Christie Wilcox surveys the animal kingdom's wide array of biochemical warriors, from spiders and snakes to sea urchins and centipedes.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

The research published in the journal Science Advances predicts that as the oceans warm fish — which appear to be superior predators in warm water — will extend their ranges away from the equator and cause a decline in the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and whelks.

Sea urchins and abalone, for example, have a harder time recovering from population declines because their reproduction relies on broadcast spawning.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

Commonly found in the waters from Baja California to Point Conception — although they can sometimes be found as far north as Monterey Bay — sheephead feed on sea urchins, whose grazing habits can wreak havoc on community composition in kelp forests.

«Urchin larvae from females exposed to low pH conditions had more genes turned on and were better prepared to handle stress.

They found more than 100 probable new species, from barnacles to heart - shaped sea urchins.

THE collector sea urchin has a most extraordinary defence: it releases hundreds of tiny jaws that can bite and release venom even after they have separated from the sea urchin's body.

«These are the same precursors seen in biominerals from sea urchin and abalone, which are different organisms from completely different branches in the tree of life, so the fact that they used exactly the same mechanism to form their skeletons is really surprising,» Gilbert explains.

To help improve the outcomes of these surgeries, scientists have developed a new grafting material from sea urchin spines.

Unlike hydroxyapatite, the scaffolds made from sea urchin spines could be cut and drilled to a specified shape and size.

The urchins live on the Pacific coast of North America, where they often experience upwellings of carbon - dioxide - rich water from the deep ocean.

Scientists from the universities of Gothenburg (GU) and Kiel (CAU), as well as GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) found that ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

Genes very similar to Smed - beta - catenin - 1 are found in animals ranging from jellyfish to humans, and they have been implicated in posterior tissue specification in frogs, sea urchins and many other animals.

«The enzymes in the sea urchins» stomachs are optimized to function at very high pH — which is different from the situation in mammals, where stomach pH is acidic and enzymes work best at low pH.»

Dr. Rebecca Vega Thurber received her doctorate in 2005 from Stanford University where she studied developmental cell signaling pathways in sea urchin larvae.

We chose two deuterostome species (chicken and sea urchin) from separate phyla and asked if Boule homologs are preferentially expressed in the testis or ovary.

(B) RT - PCR survey using sea urchin - specific primers on different tissues from purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus).

Researchers from Sweden and Germany have studied the larval stage of green sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

Echinacea angustifolia (Echinacea)-- The name Echinacea comes from the Greek word echinos which means «sea urchin» and refers to the plant's prickly seed head.

«A strict crystal meth diet also helps people shed unwanted pounds, hair and teeth and promotes the growth of healthy scabs and unclean fingernails,» continued the report which assessed the health of 1000 meth addicts and concluded that they had the rugged lean health of a 19th century street urchin with taut, tense muscles from constant alertness coupled with an immunity to most infections from living in their own filth for long periods at a time.

Another preservative, phenoxyethanol, was originally used as an insecticide and an insect repellant, and it can be toxic at low concentrations to invertebrates from shrimp to sea urchins.

A contemporary conversation piece, the Ninli Table Lamp from Surya features a stack of distressed glass sea urchin shapes mounted on a polished silver base.

Valjean's life on the run from Javert is complicated by his adoption of Cosette, a sweet urchin whose prostitute mother (Anne Hathaway) was unable to take care of her.

He wagers that he can turn her from a street urchin into a duchess within a matter of weeks, and set out to do so in the Best Picture winning film, «My Fair Lady.»

From here on out (after an interview with the fire urchin Cody stepped on to end up at Geek's), the movie becomes far more obvious, with Geek teaching Cody the ropes of surfing and imparting wisdom like the importance of having fun (basically, he becomes Pat Morita to Cody's Ralph Macchio)..

Those assembled, including Uther's best knight, Sir Bedivere (Djimon Hounsou, blessedly deviating from stock villainous roles with a stock heroic one), nod with respect at the man's shrewd acumen, but in so many respects he resembles nothing more than a clever street urchin.

There are numerous subplots and derivations throughout, as Priya falls in love with a local boy named Bobby (Aakash Mahayera), Chakku steals oranges from the markets with a band street urchins, and the young boy Hamid, who is tasked with delivering Jayesh's order of kites, accidentally gets the kites stolen and torn apart.