• The main goal of the Vertebrate Biology Group is threefold: to aid in the annotation and basic understanding of both the structure and function of the human genome (see 29 Mammals Project ), to further inform our understanding of adaptive evolution in all its forms, and to assist in the biological understanding of a variety of biomedically and evolutionarily important vertebrate organisms. (broadinstitute.org)
  • This specific dataset 'Bhutan: Vertebrate species' provides a checklist of the 1146 vertebrate species, that is, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes from the Animalia Kingdom that are found across Bhutan. (gbif.org)
  • Over the past 530 million years, the vertebrate lineage branched out from a primitive jawless fish wriggling through Cambrian seas to encompass all the diverse forms of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. (sciencedaily.com)
  • New regulatory elements affecting transcription factors peaked in our early vertebrate ancestors 500 million years ago, then declined steadily to background levels by the time mammals evolved. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A recent article speaks of "the evolutionary history of the world's terrestrial vertebrates: amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles" and how the "evolutionarily distinct species" of today are supposedly being obstructed by the "human footprint. (icr.org)
  • Researchers used species data for most land-vertebrate species (33,548 amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles) on recent exposure to maximum temperatures to predict the impacts of upcoming extreme temperatures by the end of the 21st century. (azocleantech.com)
  • In this review, we will look at the current state of understanding of PLCζ's mechanism of action and physiological role in mammals and other vertebrates, and identify areas of uncertainty that still remain to be resolved. (umass.edu)
  • In mammals and many higher vertebrates, each muscle fiber typically has a single synaptic site innervated by a single motor axon branch. (intechopen.com)
  • When the blood is being filtered, the kidneys form urine, which consists of water and excess or unnecessary substances, the urine is then excreted from the body through other organs, which in vertebrates, depending on the species, may include the ureter, urinary bladder, cloaca, and urethra. (wikipedia.org)
  • In some vertebrate species, the pronephros and mesonephros are functional organs, while in others they are only intermediate stages in the development of the final kidney, and each next kidney replaces the previous one. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here we use extensive species-level data in a time-to-event model framework to identify taxonomic and geographic discovery gaps in terrestrial vertebrates. (nature.com)
  • The first vertebrates were jawless, but vertebrates now exhibit a variety of teeth and jaws that differ greatly across species in form and function. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • HOVERGEN allows one to easily select sets of homologous genes among a given set of vertebrate species. (bio.net)
  • Tilapia, a lower vertebrate species, exhibits positive and negative lens-induced refractive change, as is the case for higher vertebrates. (nih.gov)
  • We also found that by 2099 in this scenario, 3,773 species, or 11% of total land vertebrates are likely to face extreme thermal events during most of the year. (azocleantech.com)
  • Invasive vertebrate species impact our environment, economy and society. (mdpi.com)
  • We find that at least 412 ERVi elements representing 217 viral operational taxonomic units are invading the genomes of 123 vertebrates , 18 of which have been assessed to be threatened species . (bvsalud.org)
  • Most of the changes that have happened during vertebrate evolution, as animals acquired new body plans and features like feathers and hair, were not the result of new genes but of new regulatory elements that turn genes on and off in different patterns," Haussler said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The Division of Paleontology houses an extensive archive of correspondence, field journals, maps, illustrations, and administrative paperwork associated with the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. (amnh.org)
  • In Fall 2020 the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology was awarded a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve access to the department's archives. (amnh.org)
  • The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. (vertpaleo.org)
  • However, this volume continued the work begun by O. P. Hay and his colleagues, who had published two previous retrospective volumes covering the literature of North American vertebrate paleontology, in 1902 and 1929. (vertpaleo.org)
  • Thus, for approximately one hundred years the vertebrate paleontology research community has compiled and indexed its own widely dispersed, specialized literature. (vertpaleo.org)
  • The BFV Online provides interactive access to the SVP's Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates series. (vertpaleo.org)
  • The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates was compiled and published as a series of volumes, beginning with the 1928-1933 Camp, et al. (vertpaleo.org)
  • All of these volumes are generally considered part of the Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates series, which thus includes an unbroken record of the entire published literature on vertebrate fossils, starting at the year 1509. (vertpaleo.org)
  • 1962. Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates Exclusive of North America. (vertpaleo.org)
  • 1940. Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates 1928-1933. (vertpaleo.org)
  • The Vertebrate Biology Group approaches these goals in several ways, both by leveraging the vast amount of data generated from the large number of vertebrate genomes sequenced to date (both at the Broad Institute and elsewhere) and by the coordination of new vertebrate genome sequencing projects. (broadinstitute.org)
  • Now researchers combing through the DNA sequences of vertebrate genomes have identified three distinct periods of evolutionary innovation that accompanied this remarkable diversification. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Genome mining shows that retroviruses are pervasively invading vertebrate genomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the vast majority of ERVs are not active anymore due to various disruptive mutations , and ongoing retroviral invasion of vertebrate genomes has been rarely documented. (bvsalud.org)
  • Using synchrotron microtomography, a team of Swedish, Czech, French and UK researchers led by Sweden's Uppsala University took a detailed look at a collection of 400-million-year-old fossils of acanthothoracids - an early fish group closely related to the very first jawed vertebrates - found near the Prague Basin in the Czech Republic a century ago. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Although no compilation can ever be complete, the BFV attempted to include every published scientific work that mentioned vertebrate fossils. (vertpaleo.org)
  • an invaluable aid to those who wish to know more about vertebrate fossils. (nhbs.com)
  • It is believed that the development of embryonic kidneys reflects the evolution of vertebrate kidneys from an early primitive kidney, the archinephros. (wikipedia.org)
  • The kidneys of amniotes are unique compared to other internal organs, since three different kidneys are sequentially developed during embryogenesis, replacing each other and reflecting the evolution of the kidneys in vertebrates. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the very beginning of vertebrates, when they evolved from marine chordates, their evolution probably took place in fresh or slightly saline water. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mesonephros probably appeared in the course of evolution in response to the increase in body mass of vertebrates, which also led to an increase in blood pressure. (wikipedia.org)
  • The evolution of the kidneys, along with the evolution of the lungs, allowed vertebrates called amniotes to live and reproduce in terrestrial environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • This module traces the origins of vertebrates through a series of around 21 lectures (mostly face-to-face but with additional online video resources) and follows the subsequent major advances in the evolution of aquatic, terrestrial and aerial groups. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Written answers should try and synthesise key aspects of the lecture material and enclosed information, and demonstrate an attempt to integrate and evaluate the principles underlying the structural evolution and function of vertebrates. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of processes of evolution, phylogeny, physiology and biomechanics of vertebrates. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • They found three broad categories of evolutionary innovations in gene regulation that increased in frequency during different periods in vertebrate evolution. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The findings also provide the first indication of distinct phases in vertebrate molecular evolution, with changes in different types of biological processes dominating during different periods of evolutionary history. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The emergence of gnathostomes [a superclass of the above-mentioned vertebrates] from jawless vertebrates marks a major event in the evolution of vertebrates. (icr.org)
  • The article addresses the threat to the world's animals-a valid concern-but corrupts the issue unnecessarily with the unobserved process of vertebrate evolution and deep evolutionary time. (icr.org)
  • 9 One does not have to bring up unknown and unobserved vertebrate evolution and its extreme ages in order to exercise care for the created environment and the animals it contains. (icr.org)
  • Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function & Evolution , 6th ed. (icr.org)
  • This Special Issue will contain papers that focus on the variability and evolution of early vertebrates, especially for taxa that are well-represented in the fossil record but include specimens that are poorly preserved, which hampers definition of diagnostic characters. (wikicfp.com)
  • Vertebrate Palaeontology is a complete, up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. (nhbs.com)
  • Strong phylogenetic focus making it an up-to-date source of the latest broad-scale systematic data on vertebrate evolution. (nhbs.com)
  • By developing a unified, multi-scale model of somitogenesis -- a process that establishes the earliest evident segmentation in vertebrate embryos -- both a case study for other scientists creating similar predictive, informative multi-scale models of development and important insights into the vertebrate body plan and its evolution have been achieved, according to Biocomplexity Institute Director James Glazier. (phys.org)
  • Fig. 3: Predicted future discovery potential across major terrestrial vertebrate taxa. (nature.com)
  • This Special Issue will be among the first compilations of novel data for determining the presence and origin of morphological, ontogenetic and evolutionary variability in a wide range of vertebrate taxa, which can be reproduced in future contributions. (wikicfp.com)
  • Vertebrates are a subgroup of the chordates . (berkeley.edu)
  • Faced with these intrinsic obstacles and with little evidence from the fossil record to help, it is hardly surprising that disagreement over the origin of chordates [a large phylum containing all vertebrates] has been common. (icr.org)
  • Evolutionary pressure and the need to regulate body fluid homeostasis have led to pre-adaptation of the vertebrate kidneys to different environment conditions and to development of three kidney forms: the pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros. (wikipedia.org)
  • threshold (D) -A threshold student should have a basic knowledge of some of the essential facts and key concepts of the evolutionary history, anatomical structure and diversity of vertebrates presented in the module. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • The evolutionary roots of teeth and dermal jawbones (cheekbones), the precursor to vertebrate jaws as we know them today, may be older than previously thought. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • But humans are being blamed by secular scientists for threatening-of all things-vertebrate evolutionary history! (icr.org)
  • 3 Ironically, there is nothing known for sure about the alleged evolutionary history of vertebrates-they have always been distinct from other life forms. (icr.org)
  • Vertebrates have no deep evolutionary past. (icr.org)
  • Our results reveal an unexpected prevalence of ongoing retroviral invasion in vertebrates and expand the diversity of retroviruses recently circulating in the wild. (bvsalud.org)
  • Title : Feeding Period Required by Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks for Transmission of Rickettsia rickettsii to Vertebrate Hosts Personal Author(s) : Saraiva, Danilo G.;Soares, Herbert S.;Soares, João Fábio;Labruna, Marcelo B. (cdc.gov)
  • [ 1 ] Arboviruses are maintained in transmission cycles between arthropods and vertebrate hosts, including humans and other animals. (medscape.com)
  • Leishmania promastigotes are transmitted by sand flies ( Phlebotomus , Lutzomyia ) to vertebrate hosts. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We encourage submissions of primary research papers, especially those on the taxonomic variability in ancient (Paleozoic and Mesozoic) vertebrate clades, focusing on methodologies such as morphometrics, stratigraphic and/or comparative analyses, as well as taxonomic revisions or redescriptions. (wikicfp.com)
  • Even though acanthothoracids are among the most primitive of all jawed vertebrates, their teeth are in some ways far more like modern ones than arthrodire dentitions. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • HOVERGEN corresponds to all nuclear vertebrate sequences of GenBank, with some data corrected, clarified, or completed, notably to address the problem of redundancy. (bio.net)
  • End Semester Vertebrate Biology exam including a selection of short essays covering all aspects of the module. (bangor.ac.uk)
  • The Vertebrate Biology Group maintains a variety of collaborations, within the Broad Institute as well as with a large number of outside research communities. (broadinstitute.org)
  • For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of "poor design" in biology. (evolutionnews.org)
  • SALTY SCENE The planet's earliest four-footed vertebrates called tetrapods (illustrated) lived in the brackish waters of an estuary or delta, new research suggests. (sciencenews.org)
  • Earth's earliest land-walking vertebrates didn't paddle about in freshwater lakes or rivers. (sciencenews.org)
  • A large, crocodile-like animal that lived more than 340 million years ago was one of the earliest vertebrates to have a fast-growing phase in its youth. (newscientist.com)
  • Vertebrates are animals with a backbone and an internal skeleton. (howstuffworks.com)
  • All vertebrates have a backbone that surrounds and protects the nerve cord, a character that they all inherited from their common ancestor . (berkeley.edu)
  • After the well-received 2022 collection , Frontiers in Microbiology is proud to host this Research Topic celebrating women's work and achievements in the field of Microorganisms in Vertebrate Digestive Systems. (frontiersin.org)
  • Fig. 1: Variation in observed and predicted discovery trends for the years 1759-2014 across the four terrestrial vertebrate groups. (nature.com)
  • Fig. 4: Global variation in predicted discovery potential, quantified as the percent of all global terrestrial vertebrate discoveries predicted to occur in a region. (nature.com)
  • Best vertebrate pest logo? (improbable.com)
  • This charming logo was associated with the Fourteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference , which was held in 1990. (improbable.com)
  • Eric worked for Horizons over a span of almost 40 years and through his experience at Horizons and his roles prior to joining Horizons, he really became a leading subject matter expert in vertebrate pest management. (voxy.co.nz)
  • The kidney is a paired organ of the excretory system in vertebrates, which maintains the balance of water and electrolytes in the body (osmoregulation), filters the blood, removes metabolic waste products, and in many vertebrates also produces hormones (in particular, renin) and maintains blood pressure. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here is a list of the vertebrates' classes and the different body coverings. (howstuffworks.com)
  • ANNOUNCEMENT ================================================================================ HOVERGEN Homologous Vertebrate Genes Data Base Release 6 (May 9 1994) from GenBank Release 82 (April 15 1994) ================================================================================ The new release is available by anonymous FTP at biom3.univ-lyon1.fr (134.214.100.42) in the directory /pub/hovergen HOVERGEN is a database of homologous vertebrate genes. (bio.net)
  • Here we analyze genomics data from 2004 vertebrates for mining invading ERVs (ERVi). (bvsalud.org)
  • As a result, early vertebrates developed renal glomeruli capable of filtering blood and perhaps tubules that reabsorbed ions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Whatcheeria was an early tetrapod - one of the first vertebrates to have arms and legs instead of fins. (newscientist.com)
  • This discovery shows it is the longest living vertebrate known to science, exceeding even bowhead whales, turtles and tortoises. (earthscape.org)
  • My latest research concerns the eyes of vertebrates, and here we now have new information that clearly points to the fact that we lost our original paired eyes more than 500 million years ago before we became vertebrates, and that new eyes evolved from an unpaired median eye (which still lives on as our pineal gland in the brain). (lu.se)
  • How these novelties emerged and how they facilitated the divergence, adaptation and dominance of gnathostomes as the major group (99.9%) of living vertebrates are key unresolved questions. (icr.org)
  • In healthy vertebrates, the kidneys maintain homeostasis of extracellular fluid in the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • The easiest way to determine what class a vertebrate belongs to is by looking at the body covering. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The book also presents in simplified form the ideas contained in Cajal's famous survey of vertebrate neurohistology, Histologie du Systeme Nerveux de l'Homme et des Vertébrés, unquestionably the most important book ever published in neuroanatomy, and which to this day has not been translated and published in English because of its extraordinary length. (mit.edu)