• However, the applicability of these modern approaches to the determination of cryptic species or fossil taxa has rarely been investigated. (bioone.org)
  • These included opportunistic microbial lineages and taxa closely related to potential coral pathogens (i.e. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, even if the Californian climate is, in general, not suitable for most species in this genus, more than ten different taxa are commonly cultivated in Californian gardens. (ou.edu)
  • Here we comment on the four naturalized/casual Passiflora species in California, describe the new and largest infestation of P. tarminiana , and provide a key for identification of discussed taxa. (ou.edu)
  • The marine environment is still poorly represented on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species when compared to terrestrial taxa, being essential to close knowledge gaps in this environment, to better inform conservation action. (iucn.org)
  • They increase survival chances and, due to environmental and ecological challenges, may vary substantially even between closely related taxa. (lu.se)
  • Our results confirm previous findings that longer delays decrease memory performance across species and taxa. (lu.se)
  • modern species closely resemble their Cretaceous ancestors. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • They closely resemble what is observed in their species' fossil record. (scienceblog.com)
  • None have been described as species, yet the crickets closely resemble the living family Gryllidae (true crickets). (nps.gov)
  • These insects so closely resemble their relatives, the bed bugs, that they're often mistaken for one another. (cdc.gov)
  • With one of the largest European Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) and over 1,000 species of marine fishes, it is of extreme importance to know the status of marine biodiversity to define conservation strategies and inform marine development strategies. (iucn.org)
  • Initially, only three genera (Lithornis, Paracathartes, and Pseudocrypturus) and eight named species were included. (wikipedia.org)
  • The dominant trees of the European deciduous forests are generally closely related to their equivalents in North America and Asia, consisting of different species of common genera. (britannica.com)
  • They are typically small, circular to pentagonal, flattened organisms, which have been divided into two valid families, 21 genera, and about 40 species. (springer.com)
  • In this study, fossil and subfossil specimens of the four modern Dreissena species in the Caspian Sea are used to test the performance of 3D-based morphological approaches for machine learning assisted species identification. (bioone.org)
  • This geo location app will play music by students from the Royal Academy of Music, their compositions an interpretation of the trees qualities both as individual specimens and as members of species. (cnet.com)
  • The composers have been tasked with identifying and giving sound to these myriad qualities, through an understanding of the characteristics of the different species and individual specimens. (cnet.com)
  • In the modern molecular age, however, fluid-preserved museum collections have not always been at the frontline for generating useable data, despite the fact that for some species, only museum specimens are known, with no fresh genetic materials available. (bioone.org)
  • Many bird and mammal species rely on cavities in trees to rear their young or roost. (hindawi.com)
  • Of the about 5,400 mammal species alive today, only Zenkerella insignis and five others are the "sole surviving members of ancient lineages" dating all the way back to the early part of the Eocene epoch, 49 million years ago or more, Seiffert said. (scienceblog.com)
  • In strong contrast to Zenkerella, all of these five other 'sole survivor' mammal species have been fairly well studied by scientists. (scienceblog.com)
  • Here we describe Perforocycloides nathaliae new genus and species, from the early Silurian of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada, the first articulated cyclocystoid from the Silurian of North America. (springer.com)
  • Living members of the Procambarus genus include 160 species primarily found in warm freshwaters in North America and Central America. (nps.gov)
  • This photograph depicts a dorsal view of a bat bug, Cimex pilosellus , a species of bed bug found throughout North America. (cdc.gov)
  • More than 530 species, mostly vines or lianas, have been described in the genus Passiflora (passion flowers) (Hansen et al. (ou.edu)
  • There are no native species in this genus in California. (ou.edu)
  • Perforocycloides most closely resembles the Ordovician-Silurian genus Zygocycloides , suggesting that this genus may have diversified more widely during the Silurian than previously reported. (springer.com)
  • Here we describe a new genus and species based on a single specimen collected in the early 1990s by private collector Nathalie Daoust. (springer.com)
  • Species of this genus are known phytopathogens that cause various diseases in plants such as POTATOES. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite life history differences between the species, patterns of RVs were similar, suggesting that the same behavioral mechanisms are important. (amnat.org)
  • In addition, conserved cell cycle regulatory motifs across these two species are more nucleosome-depleted compared to those that are not conserved, suggesting that the degree of conservation of regulatory sites varies, and is reflected by nucleosome occupancy patterns. (princeton.edu)
  • Finally, many changes in cell cycle gene expression patterns across species can be correlated to changes in nucleosome occupancy on motifs (rather than to the presence or absence of motifs).Conclusions: Our observations suggest that alteration of nucleosome occupancy is a previously uncharacterized feature related to the divergence of cell cycle expression between species. (princeton.edu)
  • LORENZ, K. Morphology and behavior patterns in closely allied species. (bvsalud.org)
  • In recent years, 3D analyses, new indices to describe the complexity of morphological structures and sophisticated machine learning approaches have advanced morphometrical analyses to assist species determination. (bioone.org)
  • Combine all these factors and the result is a region with an exceptional number of endemic species, that is, species found nowhere else on Earth. (www.csiro.au)
  • The Indonesian angelshark is a shark species endemic to Indonesia. (sharkwater.com)
  • Sterility can also be caused by selective breeding, where a selected trait is closely linked to genes involved in sex determination or fertility. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of the 67 vertebrate species commonly using cavities in the PNW, 20 (30%) are designated "at risk" or "potentially at risk. (hindawi.com)
  • Viral strains from South America are closely related to those from West Africa. (medscape.com)
  • They find that despite the differences between the species, the overall costs and benefits of group living are very similar, suggesting that the same behavioral mechanisms are important. (amnat.org)
  • The degree to which nucleosome-motif interactions relate to phenotypic changes across species is, however, unknown.Results: We address this challenge by generating nucleosome positioning and cell cycle expression data for Saccharomyces bayanus and show that differences in nucleosome occupancy reflect cell cycle expression divergence between two yeast species, S. bayanus and S. cerevisiae. (princeton.edu)
  • Drosophila sechellia has significantly distinct mitochondrial DNA, further emphasizing the evolutionary differences between the three species. (wikipedia.org)
  • These differences are likely to be especially pronounced in long-lived species like crocodilians. (lu.se)
  • section Manicata ) This species is native to the Andes of South America. (ou.edu)
  • however, these may still be distinguished by species-specific m/z values and/or differential relative abundance of shared m/z values. (cdc.gov)
  • D. simulans will mate with these sister species to form fertile females and sterile males, a fact that has made D. simulans an important model organism for research into speciation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some animals which can produce sterile hybrid offspring because of mating with closely related species like mule , hinny , liger and tigon . (wikipedia.org)
  • B. anthracis is closely related to sev- posit was suspended in sterile PBS. (who.int)
  • A Possibility to Discriminate Females of Three Closely Related Species of Trichogramma. (sagepub.com)
  • Wolbachia infections give insight into how certain species of Drosophila are related. (wikipedia.org)
  • Actinomyces radicidentis , a recently described species, has been isolated with polymerase chain reaction from patients with endodontic infections. (medscape.com)
  • RÉSUMÉ La présente étude visait à estimer la prévalence et les facteurs de risque des infections liées aux procédures de soins dans tous les hôpitaux de la région du centre-est de la Tunisie, comptant neuf établissements, en 2005. (who.int)
  • Nous en concluons que les infections liées aux procédures de soins constituent un motif de préoccupation dans cette région de Tunisie. (who.int)
  • New species and infections are reported regularly. (msdmanuals.com)
  • ELEPHANT ANCESTRY The first DNA analysis of straight-tusked elephants (illustrated) finds they are most closely related to modern African forest elephants, suggesting the extinct animals have been lumped in with the wrong elephant lineage for decades. (sciencenews.org)
  • The first genetic analysis of DNA from fossils of straight-tusked elephants reveals that the extinct animals most closely resembled modern African forest elephants. (sciencenews.org)
  • This includes spectacular birds-of-paradise as well as some extinct species. (www.csiro.au)
  • Their incredible diversity is still being processed, which makes the classification and description of fossil species difficult. (nps.gov)
  • The idea that some Stegosaurus species, like S. ungulatus , had eight tail spikes has proved erroneous (Carpenter & Galton 2001). (scienceblogs.com)
  • The semi-erect posture makes it possible for some species to gallop on land if necessary (Britton 2001). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • These features convinced scientists for decades that straight-tusked and Asian elephants were sister species, says Adrian Lister, a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London who was not involved in the study. (sciencenews.org)
  • To be published in the May 29 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is the first to definitively show how an animal species uses acoustic mimicry as a defensive strategy. (sott.net)
  • Currently I am a research assistant in the cognitive zoology group at the department of Philosophy, where I for the past years mostly have been collecting experimental data on various animal species. (lu.se)
  • Overall, my goal is to identify the factors which drive the evolution of cognition by assessing the presence and extent of cognitive skills in different animal species in key positions on the phylogenetic tree. (lu.se)
  • The results show that (i) there is no superior machine learning approach to species determination based on shell characters, (ii) shell complexity parameters are not per se more suitable for species identification than shell dimensions, (iii) a combination of shell parameters increases determination performance and reduces their species dependence and (iv) shell characters alone do not allow precise determination of all Dreissena species studied. (bioone.org)
  • The transmission cycle, which closely depends on characteristics of the water source, requires ingestion of water contaminated with a suitable species of tiny predatory crustaceans (copepods), which are the intermediate host. (who.int)
  • Zoos and aquariums help protect species in captivity and the wild. (audubon.org)
  • Researchers studying 160 million year old sea spider fossils have found evidence that the ancient species is closely related to sea spiders alive today. (shortyok.com)
  • Secondary users include species that seek a particular, often uncommon, form of natural cavity, such as brown creepers ( Certhia americana ), Vaux's swifts (Chaetura vauxi), and several bats plus opportunistic species that use cavities 50% or more of the time in some areas but not everywhere, such as black bears (Ursus americanus), porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), and some bat and rodent species. (hindawi.com)
  • Established in 2018 in Lisbon this Center for Species Survival, hosted by Oceanário de Lisboa , has the goal to increase the representativity of marine species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , to better understand the conservation needs of the marine environment. (iucn.org)
  • The project began in 2005 as a joint initiative of the SSC and Conservation International and was formalized as the main initiative of the Marine Biodiversity Unit (MBU) of the IUCN Global Species Programme in 2009. (iucn.org)
  • This project aimed to better understand the conservation status of the species hosted by Oceanário de Lisboa and The Deep, to inform collection management and the allocation of funding to in situ conservation projects. (iucn.org)
  • The lack of knowledge about Zenkerella's life history and ecology has led the International Union for Conservation of Nature to categorize the species as "least concern" because it is thought to be distributed over a broad geographical region in central Africa, said Drew Cronin, study co-author and postdoctoral researcher with the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program at Drexel University. (scienceblog.com)
  • The more information and visibility for the species that we can generate, the more likely we are to facilitate the research and conservation attention a unique species like Zenkerella requires. (scienceblog.com)
  • closely related species had more similar short-term memory abilities. (lu.se)
  • I am using innovative experimental approaches, adapted to the individual species' abilities, in order to make the tests as comparable as possible. (lu.se)
  • This species inhabits subtropical and tropical moist montane evergreen forests and has been observed flying over the canopy at dawn and dusk foraging for insects. (earthlife.net)
  • The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. (pfaf.org)
  • Fagus , Fraxinus , Juglans (walnut), Liquidambar , Quercus -occur as identical or closely related species. (britannica.com)
  • Several closely related or identical viruses isolated from Lutzomyia (mixed species and sexes) in Panama (3). (cdc.gov)
  • Brazil presents the greatest diversity of parrots in the world, but 25 of the 87 species recognized in Brazilian territories are critically endangered, under threat of extinction or vulnerable ( Birdlife International, 2017 BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL, 2017 [viewed 10 December 2019]. (scielo.br)
  • Novice birders quickly learn that the wild diversity of bird beaks is among the most reliable means of quickly determining to what family, and often even what species, a bird belongs. (audubon.org)
  • Drosophila simulans was found later to be closely related to two island endemics, D. sechellia and D. mauritiana. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Brush Footed Butterfly a family of butterflies (Nymphalidae) with around 5,000 species found across the globe. (whatsthatbug.com)
  • Actinomyces species that cause human disease are not found in nature but are normal flora of the oropharynx, GI tract, and female genital tract. (medscape.com)
  • Aspergillus nomius is a potent producer of aflatoxins B and G and is one of the most common species of fungi found in Brazil nuts. (researchgate.net)
  • Various species within this family exhibit distinct physical characteristics, which we will discuss in the following subsection. (whatsthatbug.com)
  • We will apply this approach to a non-model sparrow study system to answer questions about how hybridization can disrupt evolved miRNA-mRNA interactions, leading to insights about the formation of new species. (lu.se)
  • Each specimen is a record of biodiversity and documents a particular species present at a particular place at a particular time. (bioone.org)
  • To this end, it works closely with the Marine Biodiversity Unit on global assessments of marine fishes, with a particular focus on Not Evaluated species held in public aquariums, as well as conducting national assessments for Portuguese marine fishes. (iucn.org)
  • In 2018, Oceanário de Lisboa was invited by the Species Survival Commission (SSC) to join the budding network of partnerships with zoos and aquariums around the world and support the Global Marine Species Assessment (GMSA) project. (iucn.org)
  • Modern 3D scanning methods developed by Planmeca Corp. allow the researchers to closely investigate the movement of the panda's jaw and the structure of its teeth. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Propionibacterium propionicus and related species of bacteria can also cause actinomycosislike disease. (medscape.com)
  • Related species: There are two plants closely related to red buckeye. (uky.edu)
  • The GMSA is the first global review of the risk of extinction for 20,000 marine species including every marine vertebrate, plants, and selected invertebrates for inclusion in the IUCN Red List. (iucn.org)
  • For both species, the costs for additional group members on survival are most important for integrated fitness and this is amplified through carry-over effects of group size between years (i.e. large groups suffer survival costs, and are likely to do so the next year as well). (amnat.org)
  • In both species, integrated fitness of most group members was highest in small groups (size 2-3), and larger group sizes reduced fitness. (amnat.org)
  • Frogs are a a diverse group, and there are 4800 species. (cybersleuth-kids.com)
  • Beetles are the most diverse group of animals on the planet with over 350,000 described species and many more awaiting description. (nps.gov)
  • This species was discovered by the fly geneticist Alfred Sturtevant in 1919, when he noticed that the flies used in Thomas Hunt Morgan's laboratory at the Columbia University were actually two distinct species: D. melanogaster and D. simulans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Examples of applications are the modelling of changes in forest species and productivity under climate change. (lu.se)
  • Crocodile is the common name for any species belonging to the reptile family Crocodylidae (order Crocodilia). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Australian National Wildlife Collection is geographically extensive, sampling the common and everyday species as well as the exotic. (www.csiro.au)
  • Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)-the closely related species of M. avium and M. intracellulare -accounts for most NTM disease, but M. abscessus is increasingly becoming common. (msdmanuals.com)
  • They closely resembled modern tinamous. (wikipedia.org)
  • Together, the 3 families contain thousands of modern species. (nps.gov)
  • HLA is the human version of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a gene family that occurs in many species. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Living members of the Palaemonidae family includes over 900 species that live in freshwater and marine waters. (nps.gov)
  • YF virus, an arbovirus, is the type species for the family Flaviviridae and is a single, positive-stranded, enveloped RNA virus. (medscape.com)
  • The panda is in practice a herbivore, and its diet only consists of few dozen species of bamboo. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to utilize MALDI-TOF MS to determine whether the mass spectra of individual fungal species produced specific m/z values that could be used to discriminate between species. (cdc.gov)
  • Statistical discriminative analysis of mass spectra resulted in the ability to unambiguously differentiate fungal species. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: This work demonstrates the potential utility of MALDI-TOF MS for the objective species identification of both clinically and environmentally relevant fungal isolates. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2021, with the development of SSC's partnership network, the Oceanário's Red List Officers team adopted the designation Center for Species Survival - Oceanário de Lisboa, continuing the work on Assess step of the Assess-Plan-Act cycle. (iucn.org)
  • For this reason, by the end of 2021, the CSS-Oceanário de Lisboa started working on the 'Red Book of the Marine Fishes of Portugal' and welcomed two more full-time Species Survival Officers to the team. (iucn.org)
  • The Australian National Wildlife Collection holds a significant collection of fauna and flora of New Guinea and the Pacific islands, critical to understanding the evolution of species in Australia and the wider Pacific. (www.csiro.au)
  • They're wonders of evolution, barometers of how species react to-and sometimes even instigate-changes in their environment. (audubon.org)
  • There are over 170 recognized species of mycobacteria, mostly environmental. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Other efforts to conserve species include the San Diego Zoo 's project to collect and freeze animal tissue and cell cultures, banking the genetic material for potential future use. (audubon.org)
  • As you look more closely individual species are recognised. (cnet.com)
  • They're not static over the course of an individual bird's lifetime, and they're certainly not fixed as bird species respond to-and instigate-changes in their environment. (audubon.org)
  • In general, Actinomyces species, being members of the normal flora, are agents of low pathogenicity and require disruption of the mucosal barrier to cause disease. (medscape.com)
  • Very old members of some species have been seen in an almost "edentulous" (toothless) state, after teeth have been broken and replacement slowed or ceased. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Basically, if miRNA repression is evolutionarily important for a gene, we expect the miRNA binding sites to be shared across closely related species. (lu.se)
  • To investigate the effects of phylogeny, ecology and sociality on short-term memory ability, we tested 421 non-human primates across 41 species in a pre-registered, experimental delayed-response task. (lu.se)
  • The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to more than 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. (audubon.org)
  • Rufous-bellied Nighthawks don't actually construct a nest, as most other bird species do. (earthlife.net)
  • Over 75 species of rosewood are commercially traded, and species-level identification is nearly impossible, even by experts. (wri.org)
  • This landmark decision is accompanied by growing interest in emerging technologies that make identification of timber species faster and more affordable, which can aid authorities in the implementation and enforcement of CITES regulations. (wri.org)
  • Studies on lithornithid feathers shows that some species had gloss similar to that of cassowaries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through the analysis of cytoplasmic incompatibility and similar mitochondrial DNA, it has been shown that D. simulans and D. mauritiana are more closely related to each other than to D. sechellia. (wikipedia.org)