Sentences with phrase «vertebrate species»

Also, paleontological studies indicate assemblages of plant, insect, and vertebrate species that do not occur anywhere today.

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Another potential threshold phenomenon is decreasing ocean pH to the point that the developmental pathways of many invertebrates (NRC, 2011a; Ricke et al., 2013) and vertebrate species are disrupted, as is already beginning to happen (see examples below).

Expected impacts on Australia of warming at this level include: the shut - down of the Murray - Darling river system; disappearance of Kakadu's freshwater wetlands under rising seas; loss of most of the core habitat of vertebrate species; a 40 + per cent decline in livestock carrying capacity; trebling of

Its dramatic increase led to warming, triggering a whole range of responses that killed an estimated 90 percent of marine biodiversity, and that warming killed a staggering 96 percent of marine biodiversity and for instance 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species.

Whether it's CO2 emissions, temperature change, ocean dead zones, freshwater resources, vertebrate species or total forest cover, the grim charts virtually all point in the same dismal direction, indicating continued momentum toward doomsday.

Polar bears were actually the first vertebrate species to be listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened with extinction primarily due to global warming.

I can think of no other vertebrate species that had accomplished this.

► 50 % of All Vertebrate Species will be gone by 2040.

CCDC66 is evolutionarily conserved in different vertebrate species and exhibits a complex pattern of differential RNA splicing resulting in various isoforms in the retina.

For the purposes of § 3.2 - 6570, the operative animal cruelty law, animal means any nonhuman vertebrate species including fish except those fish captured and killed or disposed of in a reasonable and customary manner.

Using wildlife cameras, we documented over 40 potentially susceptible vertebrate species in latrines and adjacent habitat.

This hypothesis was recently confirmed by the team of Abalo and Larhammar in a detailed study on the visual opsin gene family analysing a broad range of vertebrate species.

► 50 % of All Vertebrate Species gone by 2040.

Lineage - specific proteome differences indicate that vertebrate species evolved distinct synapse types and functions.

Surveys of the airport estate have shown that there are 134 different vertebrate species inhabiting the aerodrome.

RRM sequence alignment of Dazl homologs from diverse vertebrate species.

Although there is obvious variation in brain organization across vertebrate species, the basic brain blueprint has remained remarkably stable for millions of years, as have the mechanistic principles associated with how it regulates various functions, including behavior.

To test a possible homology of these cells with the chordamesoderm, we chose a chordamesoderm - specific gene set according to the following criteria: (i) specificity — their combined expression uniquely defines the chordamesoderm; (ii) conservation — their chordamesoderm expression is conserved in at least three of four vertebrate species; and (iii) function — they have proven essential for chordamesoderm development or signaling.

Few vertebrate species live in this desolate environment, and those that do rarely venture away from the coast.

Before 1992, there had been 124 conservation translocations of vertebrate species; by 2005 the number was up to 424.

MASS & EXTINCTION ► Humans and livestock are 97 % of land vertebrate biomass ► Humans and livestock eat 40 % of land chlorophyll biomass ► 50 % of vertebrate species died off in the last 50 years.

► 50 % of vertebrate species will die off in next 40 years.

The only vertebrate species in the world were fish, all of which lived underwater.

But together, these two groups make up about 99.9 % of the living vertebrate species.

The team evaluated how the duration of active mosquito season following the arrival of an infectious traveler and propensity for biting diverse vertebrate species - where every non-human bite slows the transmission process - influence outbreak potential for different urban densities.

It's 400 million years old, and is shared among 70 % of all vertebrate species.

The genus Cryptosporidium, a group of single - celled eukaryotic organisms in the phylum Apicomplexa, comprises an unknown number of species infecting numerous vertebrate species.

The Navesink Formation preserves many invertebrate and vertebrate species common in the Late Cretaceous near shore marine sediments, such as bivalves, brachiopods, crustaceans, teleost fish, sharks, turtles and the occasional mosasaur and dinosaur.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Gettysburg College found that this symbiosis, the only known example that includes a vertebrate species, puts stress on algal cells, changing the way they make energy, but does not seem to negatively impact salamander cells.

In addition, the paper ostensibly focuses on a small group of vertebrate species that are known to be endangered or were considered extinct and then rediscovered.

To gain further insight, a team led by David Haussler, a computational biologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), extended the junk DNA comparison to five vertebrate species — humans, mice, rats, chickens, and pufferfish — along with four insects, two worms, and seven species of yeast.

This armour would have perhaps peaked some 400 million years ago in now - extinct jawless vertebrate species, as protection against predation by ferocious sea scorpions, or even their early jawed kin.

Besides a few rodent fossils and the remains of an owl that probably fell into the Dinaledi chamber by mistake, there are no other vertebrate species present.

Not only can they hide from mackerel amongst the jellies» stinger - covered tentacles when they rise from the seafloor to feed and digest at night, they can also survive for hours within the ocean floor's low - or no - oxygen muds, which are pervaded by poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas — an inhospitable place lacking any other vertebrate species.

... The FOXP2 gene has been around for a very long time, found in similar form in distantly related vertebrate species, and it may be important not only for brain development and function but also in other tissues.»

Fishes account for over half of vertebrate species, but while groups such as mammals, birds and reptiles have been fairly well understood by scientists for decades, knowledge about relationships among many types of fishes was essentially unknown — until now.

Yesterday, representatives from the National Park Service, which manages land on which many of the U.S.'s nearly 400 endangered vertebrate species live, visited the lab to sign an agreement with the museum to allow for storage of DNA samples from these species in the chilly facilities.

Sallan et al. looked across vertebrate species during and after the Devonian extinction (see the Perspective by Wagner).

«This is the first time the complete genetic code — the genome — of any vertebrate species from Panama has been sequenced and analyzed,» said Oris Sanjur, co-author and Associate Director for Science Administration at STRI.

The mass extinction 65 million years ago may have helped establish the modern reef fish communities now home to 7 per cent of all vertebrate species

Prior research showed that the mPOA is important for social and reproductive behavior in all vertebrate species studied from fish to human, but it has been unclear whether this area drives social motivation through circuit connections with reward systems in the brain.

«The Southeast ends up being a really important area for a lot of vertebrate species that we know are going to have to move into the Appalachian area and even potentially farther north,» she added.

Although many vertebrate species have diversified on the island after arriving by overwater «sweepstakes» dispersal, most — such as the flying lizards and black - crested macaque monkeys — have speciated in such a way that their geographic ranges are non-overlapping, with their ranges meeting like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.

Showed that the four genes that were significantly down - regulated have evolutionarily conserved miR -124-3p binding sites across a wide range of higher vertebrate species.

New research examines how vertebrate species in the eastern United States ranging from snakes to mammals to birds responded to climate change over the last 500,000 years.

The researchers also show that modern deforestation has left us with an estimated extinction debt of 144 vertebrate species found only in tropical forests.

This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell - crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, which first appears in the fossil record a mere 11 million years after an extinction that wiped out more than 90 percent of the planet's vertebrate species.

Before the consortium came together, he had participated in sequencing the genomes of two vocal learners, a songbird and a parrot, but he knew he couldn't do all of the additional sequencing and analysis work that would be required to identify genes related to vocal learning — not by himself, at least — so he teamed up with Genome 10K, a project aiming to collect genomes for 10,000 vertebrate species.