Sentences with phrase «vertebrate animal with»

A person who knowingly or intentionally kills a vertebrate animal with the intent to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass, or terrorize a family or household member can be prosecuted for domestic violence animal cruelty, a Level 6 felony.

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We are swimming, along with every other vertebrate, in the sea of the Animal Kingdom.

Since the sexual reproduction stage of malaria only occurs in insects, Poinar said in the new study that they must be considered the primary hosts of the disease, not the vertebrate animals that they infect with disease - causing protozoa.

James Mead, a vertebrate paleontologist with East Tennessee State University, said more research into the evolutionary history of native plants and animals on Abaco is needed as well as conservation programs based on paleontological research that aims to restore these species.

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When fighting diseases, ant colonies show a remarkable similarity with the immune system that protects the organism of vertebrate animals.

In existing vertebrates, genome size correlates very closely with bone cell size, so Organ used the size of dinosaur bone cells to predict how much genetic material the extinct animals possessed.

A variety of vertebrates and a handful of invertebrates, including octopuses and spiders — even a bacterium — are members of the personality club, but the researchers say sea anemones set a new bar as the animal with the simplest nervous system.

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While large vertebrate mammals, like deer or bear, might be able to make that overland journey to keep up with northward - shifting temperatures, smaller animals and plants just don't move that fast, Anderson said.

By contrast with domesticated animals, the percentage of truly wild vertebrates left today as a result of these long - term processes is described as «vanishingly small».

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

reptile Cold - blooded vertebrate animals, whose skin is covered with scales or horny plates.

Taking advantage of fly genetics The research will combine the strength of the fly system (animals that are short lived but complex enough to model regenerative activity in vertebrates) with genetic studies in mice to understand the role of mTOR signaling in maintaining the health of adult stem cells in both species.

As a vertebrate paleontologist, he studies the fossils of animals with backbones.

Furthermore, the animal experimentation follows the European Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes (ETS No. 123) with its appendix A. All animal experiments are and will be carried out in full accordance with the Law and the Decree, which state that the work with animals is carried out only under specific authorizations that include licenses for the personnel, housing of the animals, and also individual experiments.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The ability to form blood vessels is one of evolution's crowning achievements, and something that separates vertebrates (animals with a backbone) from the rest of the animal kingdom.

The phylogenetic position of the cephalochordate amphioxus, together with its relatively simple and evolutionarily conserved morphology and genome structure, has led to its use as a model for studies of animal evolution, with a special focus on the origin of deuterostomes, chordates, and vertebrates.

vertebrate The group of animals with a brain, two eyes, and a stiff nerve cord or backbone running down the back.

Dopamine (DA) is a neurotransmitter with conserved behavioral roles between invertebrate and vertebrate animals.

All vertebrate animals (i.e. those with a backbone, such as humans, dogs, and cats) possess a thyroid.