Sentences with phrase «vertebrate tetrapods»
«Among vertebrate tetrapods — things with four limbs — the axolotl is one of the best regenerators out there,» says Jeffrey Nelson, a former postdoctoral fellow in regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute.
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«Among vertebrate tetrapods — things with four limbs — the axolotl is one of the best regenerators out there.»
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Vertebrates 505 Tetrapods 395 Amniotes, 340 Mammals 220 Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) Placental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials) 125 Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos) 100 Primates, colugos and tree shrews Primates and colugos79.6 Primates 75 «Dry - nosed» (literally, «simple - nosed») primates (a-pes, monkeys, and tarsiers) 40 «Higher» primates (or Simians)(a-pes, old - world monkeys, and new - world monkeys) «Downward - nosed» primates (a-pes and old - world monkeys) 30 A-pes 28 Great a-pes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas 8 Genera H - omo and Australopithecus 5.8 Contains only the Genus H - omo 2.5 Humans 2.5 Modern humans 0.5 Fully anatomically modern humans 0.2
Vertebrates 505 Tetrapods 395 Amniotes, 340 Mammals 220 Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying) Pl - acental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials) 125 Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos) 100 Primates, colugos and tree shrews Primates and colugos 79.6 Primates 75 «Dry - nosed» (literally, «simple - nosed») primates (apes, monkeys, and tarsiers) 40 «Higher» primates (or Simians)(a-pes, old - world monkeys, and new - world monkeys) «Downward - nosed» primates (apes and old - world monkeys) 30 A-pes 28 Great a-pes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas 8 Genera H - omo and Australopithecus 5.8 Contains only the Genus H - omo 2.5 Humans 2.5 Modern humans 0.5 Fully anatomically modern humans 0.2
Because skates are an evolutionarily ancient animal, that means the neurons essential for walking originated in species that separated from other four - legged vertebrates, or tetrapods, about 420 million years ago.
By comparing the genomes of 203 vertebrates, they first traced the origin of KZFPs back to a common ancestor of tetrapods (four - legged animals) and coelacanth, a fish that evolved over 400 million years ago.
Once ashore, these four - limbed vertebrates, called tetrapods, branched into an impressive range of animals: amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals.
Through her discussion of when, where, and how vertebrates first came ashore, Clack offers an up - to - date account of our understanding of the fish to tetrapod transition, one of the classic evolutionary stories.
«Based on the phylogenetic relationships and the presence of tetrachromacy in recent tetrapods it is most likely that the stem species - of all terrestrial vertebrates had photo receptors to detect blue, green, red and uv,» says Dr. Christian Fischer of the University of Göttingen.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.
Those prints were made by the earliest tetrapod (four - legged) land vertebrate ever found.
The early tetrapods (from the Ancient Greek word meaning «four - footed») were the first vertebrates to tread terra firma, developing lungs to capture atmospheric oxygen and turning fins into legs, but with a life cycle that was still closely tied to aquatic environments.
At just 1 centimetre long, it ties with a Brazilian frog as the world's tiniest tetrapod — a group that includes all vertebrates apart from fish.
«It was assumed that tetrapods evolved in river deltas and lakes, partly because all previous fossil evidence has been found in these environments,» says Jenny Clack, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK.
«And then we get complete sets of lineages we are quite familiar with: coelacanths, also lungfish, and of course our direct ancestors the tetrapods (every land vertebrate ever, plus birds, bats, dolphins and whales).»
Sarda Sahney & Michael J. Benton — 2017 (1)([email protected]) Keywords: biodiversity, diversity, fossil record, Pull of the Recent, tetrapods, vertebrates.
Although vertebrate life exists on land, the reptile - like tetrapods of this period predate any mammal or bird and would certainly «swarm» upon the land.
It is probably not accidental that tetrapod also refers to any four - footed, vertebrate animal, or that Dolos is the Greek god of deception and trickery.