Sentences with phrase «wide geographic distribution»

For breeds with wide geographic distribution, imports may provide sources of fresh genetic material provided the exporting country's registry is considered acceptable, the populations are not already substantially related, and the populations have not diverged in type to the point that breeders in each country consider the dogs in the other unsuitable.

Ibrahim cites variation among fossils of T. rex, as well as its wide geographic distribution — the iconic dinosaur has been found in both Texas and Canada, for example — when dismissing his critics» argument that a single spinosaurid species was unlikely to have lived in both Morocco and Egypt during the middle of the Cretaceous period.

«We now have important information about the behavior of these ancient organisms, and a clue as to why they had such a wide geographic distribution,» Ausich said.

Furthermore, Buden and colleagues demonstrated that flying foxes from the nearby islands of Chuuk Lagoon, long regarded as a separate species (Pteropus insularis), are also best regarded as a subspecies of Pteropus pelagicus, showing that the species has a wider geographic distribution than previously realized.

«The number of cases of feline tularemia and cytauxzoonosis in the region diagnosed at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have increased steadily over the years, at least partly owing to the wider geographic distribution of Amblyomma americanum, or the lone star tick,» Raghavan said.

This finding shows that the Mortlock flying fox has a wider geographic distribution than previously realized.

In addition to their wide geographic distribution, sauropods are one of the most long - lived groups of dinosaurs, spanning some 100 or so million years, from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous.

The AWC will also bring wind from a wider geographic distribution onto the grid, reducing the impact of wind's variability.