Sentences with phrase «zoologists at»

Zoologists at the University of Bonn and a colleague from Oxford have now found out how complex the processing of these sensory impressions is.

The offshore bird's secret, revealed for the first time in May by zoologists at Iowa State University, is in the storm petrel's telomeres, repetitive bits of DNA that sit on the ends of the chromosomes in each cell like protective caps.

Zoologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland have now discovered a new parasite species that represents the missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites.

Late last year, Peter Funch and Reinhardt Kristensen, zoologists at the University of Copenhagen, announced that they'd found an animal strange enough to merit its own phylum, which they have named Cycliophora.

Nelson, a senior zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that statement in the preface to a recent book by Wendell Bird, the leading attorney for the creationist organizations.

But that premise often looks at creatures within a limited size range, says Myriam Hirt, a zoologist at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig.

Matthew Cobb is a zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK.

But clawed paws in these northern «true seals,» which include harbor and harp seals, seem to be more than just a holdover from ancient times, says David Hocking, a marine zoologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

They will be useful in the lab, says Santiago Castroviejo - Fisher, a zoologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, because their organs can be monitored in real time to see how they respond to stimuli.

Ben Rowson, a zoologist at the National Museum Wales in the UK, says he was not aware of all these cases of slugs eating birds.

«It is important and a valuable stepping stone in our quest to understand how intelligence evolved, but like all studies, it is one piece of a larger puzzle,» says Sarah Benson - Amram, a zoologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, whose recent comparative study of 39 species of carnivores reached the opposite conclusion.

That's why Bill Sellers, a computational zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK, has developed a new technique for simulating dinosaur movement and working out which gaits they most likely used.

To further test the theory, Christopher Bird, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and his colleague Nathan Emery of Queen Mary, University of London, «quizzed» rooks on a basic concept of physics they call «support.»

Paolo Viscardi, a zoologist at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin who was not involved with the research, says the new study helps debunk Ata's origin myths.

The study is «ingenious» and reflects a positive trend toward studying how animals might think and not just what they do, says Alex Kacelnik, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

«The basis of our challenge is that in 1990 these techniques were old hat,» says David Roberts, a zoologist at the Natural History Museum in London.

The 26 commissioners hail from 19 countries, and with offices in Europe and Asia, «we're now truly the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature,» says Daphne Fautin, a zoologist at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, who is ICZN's vice president.

Stephen Proulx, a zoologist at the University of Toronto, has developed an evolutionary model that makes this behavior easier to understand: It's not just about money, but it's not just about genes either.

Siveter's team has produced a «a jaw - droppingly beautiful representation» of the fossil, says Rich Palmer, an invertebrate zoologist at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.

Martin Wikelski, a zoologist at the University of Washington, has found that these abused males have evolved a unique reproductive strategy: at the sight of a female, they freeze in copulatory poses and ejaculate.

Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

And in 2005, Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at the National Science Museum in Japan, used a high - definition video system to study the elusive Taningia danae, a huge, eight - armed, bioluminescent squid that exceeds seven feet in length.

«This suggests that the mammal and bird sex chromosome system is not as different as we have always thought,» says Marilyn Renfree, a zoologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

In a second example of chimpanzee grieving, a research group led by Dora Biro, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., observed two chimp mothers carrying the remains of their dead infants for weeks.

With short - lived animals, «you can walk away froma project within three or four years, and you've got a lot of data, andyou can make a big impression on your colleagues,» says RonaldNussbaum, a zoologist at the University of Michigan.

Louis Guillette, a zoologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, has been studying alligators in Florida for decades.

But Ulf Johansson, a zoologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and his colleagues have now analysed the genetics of the Pygmy Bushtit using a museum specimen collected in 1920.

«People were willing to give me equipment — I just had to ask for it,» exclaims Greg Kelly, a zoologist at the University of Western Ontario who ended up walking away with, among other things, two centrifuges.

And Pung - Pung Hwang, a zoologist at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, says the team also needs to look at more - ancient fish, such as lamprey and sturgeon, as well as fish living in saltwater.

Tim Coulson, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, participated in the independent expert panel that the oversaw the experiment.

Konrad Wiese, a zoologist at the University of Hamburg, thinks he's figured out how krill keep in touch: their tiny antennae pick up pressure waves from their neighbors.

Once again John Alcock, a zoologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, climbs Usery Peak near Phoenix to observe nature, from ants and eagles to the giant saguaro cacti that dominate this landscape.

Testing a causal connection between flight ability and egg shape is tough «because of course we can't replay the whole tape of life again,» says Claire Spottiswoode, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge who wrote a commentary accompanying the study.

«I observe insects mating all the time,» says John Alcock, a zoologist at Arizona State University.

«I think it's the social behaviour that drives the dolphins» optimistic decisions,» says Isabella Clegg, a zoologist at the University of Paris - North, and lead author of the study.

Warren Porter, a zoologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said the paper was «an important reminder of how non-linear animal processes can substantially respond to even subtle changes in the environment.»

For parasites that want to evade these defenders, there's a «continuous arms race,» says Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, a zoologist at the University of Oxford, U.K. Parasites have evolved various ways to avoid scrutiny from the host's immune system, and most have adapted exquisitely to one host.

«This feature isn't known in any Atlantic sea bass larvae, but it is similar to one species of Indo - Pacific sea bass,» said David Johnson, a zoologist at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

«This was one of those cases where all the stars were properly aligned,» said Carole Baldwin, a zoologist at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

«The beauty of their work is that they are able to trace the fate of [the sperm's tail],» says Gerald Schatten, a zoologist at the University of Oregon.

But Jamie Hunt, a zoologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, says the work has «serious shortcomings,» showing only that monogamy correlates with eusociality without necessarily causing it.

says Lucy King, a postgraduate zoologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the study's lead author.

To conduct the research, Elise Huchard, a zoologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Montpellier, France, and colleagues examined a group of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) living in Tsaobis Nature Park in Namibia over a 9 - year period.

Julia Parrish, a zoologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who did not work on the study, told Science News this is a case where a group of ants working together accomplishes more than you might expect by studying individuals.

Biography: Tim McClanahan is a Senior Conservation Zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he has worked for the past 15 years.

She's a zoologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

Lyko's theory is reasonable, says Gerhard Scholtz, a zoologist at Humboldt University of Berlin who led the first study of marbled crayfish.

Isabel Barja, a zoologist at the Autonomous University of Madrid, recently had the inelegant task of inspecting wolf scat in a mountainous region of the Iberian Peninsula.

Linda J. Gormezano, a vertebrate zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History (whose fascinating field work in Hudson Bay was described by me awhile back)

Predictions that global warming would wipe out polar bears are based on «scientifically unsound» computer models, according to a new study by a veteran zoologist at the University of Victoria.