Sentences with phrase «urchins use»

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

Not exact matches

Memories of weekends spent sailing were as deeply buried as the sea urchins McManus used to harvest as a commercial diver.

Many animals, including sea urchins and some small crustaceans, use this mechanism to sense their surroundings.

The current paper combines previous findings with new work using visual surveys and path analysis to quantify the direct and indirect effects of sheephead on sea urchins and macroalgal assemblages.

Sea urchin is a delicacy in Asia, South America, Europe, and increasingly in California, where the uniquely flavored roe, or uni, is used in sushi, gourmet cuisine, and products such as sauces and flavorings.

Russell says the sea urchins» abilities are a by - product of how they eat, using the five sharp teeth on their underside.

It will also be used to analyse gene signalling networks in cress, fruit flies and sea urchins.

«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.

Using a hydrothermal reaction, the researchers converted sea urchin spines to biodegradable magnesium - substituted tricalcium phosphate scaffolds while maintaining the spines» original interconnected, porous structure.

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

List of primers used for RT - PCR and qRT - PCR analyses of Chicken, Sea urchin and mouse Boule homologs.

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).

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.

Helping things jerk along are Jason Isaacs as a wacky transvestite Scot (who, like all movie gay men, has nothing better to do than tend to wounded whores with hearts of gold), a little urchin who needs a daddy (Liam Aiken — he also stank in Stepmom, a film that was directed by Chris Columbus), and Greg Germann (television's «Ally McBeal») as the late - film reminder of the kind of fathead Nelson used to be before he met Sara.

However, those cloning methods could be used only in experiments with a small number of primitive living creatures, such as sea urchins and salamanders.

Quamking from 2008 is as spiky and colorful as a giant sea urchin, and what's startling about this late Chamberlain is his brilliant use of color, as masterful and complex as any painter's.

Populations of parrotfish are a critical component of that herbivory, particularly since the decline of Diadema sea urchins in the early 1980s; the main causes of mortality of parrotfish are the use of fishing techniques such as spearfishing and, particularly, the use of fish traps....

Calcite - A calcium carbonate (limestone) mineral, used by shell - or skeleton - forming, calcifying organisms such as foraminifera, some macroalgae, lobsters, crabs, sea urchins and starfish.

Much like the sand dollar sea urchin's modular system of polygonal plates that are linked with finger - like protrusions, the pavilion's wooden plates are finger - jointed together in complex but modular arrangements, all done using robotic fabrication.

Modelled on the biological principles of a sea urchin's plate skeleton, the idea was to study and then emulate this biological form using advanced computer - based design and simulations.

In the photo above I used those same sea urchins you saw in my star dish in a previous post.

* Main fabric (to cover our lampshades we used, clockwise from top left in the picture: Toile Carreaux, ref 6138 - 12, col Noir, # 33 a metre, Marvic Textiles; Sea Urchin, ref GWF - 2809, # 61 a metre; Daisy Daisy, ref GWF - 2746, # 65 a metre, both Groundworks at GP & J Baker; Meander Granite, ref ED75009, # 65 a metre, Threads at GP & J Baker; Nirvana, ref B6026 - 001, # 109.40 a metre, Charles Burger at Turnell & Gigon)

Use this authentic looking large white clam shell as a decorative piece on the serving table, filled with seashells, starfish, sea urchin shells, Christmas ornaments, and possibly a draping of fish netting.