Sentences with phrase «use of amphibians»

But because the concentrations that affected the animals were so small — 30 times lower than the current allowable limit in drinking water — the findings support the use of amphibians as environmental sentinels.

The adaptation of xenopus model to new technologies such as customized nucleases and automated screening tools, enables a wider use of the amphibian model.

Not exact matches

Our Herp Atlas used volunteers to record the distribution of reptile and amphibian species across the Commonwealth.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

They found that a broad range of insecticides commonly used in the U.S. kill amphibian parasites, which could potentially decrease the number of parasites that amphibians must defend against.

Use of elephant dung as habitat by amphibians,» will be published in Biotropica.

Using mist nets to capture birds as well as pitfall traps to capture mammals and amphibians, they painstakingly recorded information on 25,000 individuals, made up of 140 species of birds, 43 species of mammals and 29 species of amphibians.

Many animals, including dogs, birds, crocodiles and amphibians, don't have a working version of the gene, or don't use it.

«But this was not always the case,» explains Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme, director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, who continues, «Our most recent study shows that the number of amphibian and reptile species used to be much higher in the course of geological history.»

«We know that other animals use polarisation patterns in the sky, and we have at least some idea how they do it: bees have specially - adapted photoreceptors in their eyes, and birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles all have cone cell structures in their eyes which may help them to detect polarisation,» says Dr Richard Holland of Queen's University Belfast, co-author of the study.

«While we use amphibians as an example in this article, the negative effects of collecting samples from endangered animal populations is a concern that applies across taxa and around the world.

A hugely diverse range of creatures — including bees, anchovies, birds, reptiles and amphibians — use the patterns as a compass to work out which way is north, south, east and west.

Researchers from the University of Surrey (UK), the Federal University of São Paulo and the Butantan Institute in Brazil used an innovative 3D liver cell examination to explore the liver function of this snake - like amphibian.

This critically endangered frog can be used as a basis for declaring its native laterite habitats as «Conservation Reserves» or «Biological Heritage Areas» under existing legislations in India, allowing us to further our knowledge and understanding of amphibians,» said Mr Seshadri.

However, there was not a strong multicollinearity between velocity and our other predictor variables (tolerance values for velocity: amphibians = 0.51, mammals = 0.49, birds = 0.52, values differ due to the use of different predictor variable subsets).

Besides these bats (and it's not known whether other species of bat can do this, too), researchers have found that certain insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians can navigate using polarized light.

Having conducted analyses of genetic, morphologic, and bioacoustic data, scientists C. Daniel Rivadeneira, Dr. Pablo J. Venegas, and Dr. Santiago R. Ron concluded that the amphibians represented two previously unknown species that used to go by the name of the Sarayacu treefrog (Dendropsophus parviceps).

Using bioinformatics, the computer wades through the information to give us a full complex of what's in that sample — whether it be invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds — anything that may be coming into contact with the water or soil.

While adherents of sustainable use argue that it is the best way to begin conservation «on the ground» and to improve the way trade in reptiles and amphibians is regulated, they recognise that it will not succeed in isolation.

He ponders nighttime oddities of nature, such as the Texas blind salamander, a cave - dwelling semitranslucent amphibian that has no need for night vision — a trait that it apparently shares with about 40 percent of Americans, who, being bombarded with light pollution, never use theirs.

In research published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology at UTM, explains that the presence of such an extensive field of teeth provides clues to how the intriguing feeding mechanism seen in modern amphibians was also likely used by their ancient ancestors.

The Donald Brown laboratory uses amphibian metamorphosis to study complex developmental programs such as the development of vertebrate organs.

While mouse has been successfully used to study multiple aspects of kidney development, the amphibian pronephros of Xenopus offers a valuable alternative to explore the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms.

A new custom Bd genotyping assay using skin swabs The chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), affects hundreds of amphibian species around the world, yet many hundreds of species become infected yet are not... AmphibiaWeb

Using this framework, we assessed the climate change vulnerability of each of the world's birds (9,856 species), amphibians (6,204 species) and warm - water reef - building corals (797 species).

Much of the work makes use of the giant oocyte of amphibians and the equally giant nucleus or germinal vesicle (GV) found in it.

He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).

The story goes like this: The Great God of the Forest, a mythical creature with the body of a deer, a human face and wooden horns that morphs into a giant, glistening blue amphibian at night (imagine Cecil, the Sea Serpent, dressed by Bob Mackie), has decreed that the forest gods may use any means to protect their domain from humans.

This module, created for use across upper Key Stage 2, examines the individual life cycles of insects, amphibians, mammals and birds and introduces pupils to the different ways that species reproduce.

The use of live rodents to be fed to reptiles and amphibians (herps) is strongly discouraged for various reasons, especially the danger they can cause to your pet.

Note that dechlorinators — which remove chlorine from tap water for fish and amphibian tanks — can be used to speed up the rinsing off of bleach solution, as it breaks down the chlorine in the bleach.

Food manufacturers are working harder than ever to develop cutting - edge diets and supplements that are easy to use and suited for a variety of reptiles and amphibians.

Additionally, these LED fixtures have been designed specifically for reptile and amphibian use, instead of simply being adapted from other industries.

Studies to locate the source of the infection and to determine if there has been further dissemination among the UK amphibian trade are ongoing through the use of contact - tracing and molecular epidemiology.

They wrote, «We now recognize commercial exploitation, introduction of exotic species, and land use as ongoing causes of amphibian declines».

The court also noted a special review of whether the pesticide presented an unacceptable environmental risk to amphibians was required by the precautionary principle, which holds that given threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent adverse health impact or environmental degradation.