Sentence examples for Long gut from inspiring English sources

The evolutionary origin of organ asymmetries may have been a longer than body length gut, which allows efficient retrieval of nutrients, and the need to stow a long gut in the body cavity in an orderly manner that ensures optimal functioning.

If no detrimental effect of gut retention time on germination performance is a general trait among tropical species, the extirpation of large frugivores with long gut retention time, such as the western lowland gorilla, would likely have negative long-term implications for tropical forests.

The energy our ancestors saved by no longer having to maintain a long gut was channelled into brain development instead.

Nobody knows why: it might be that I. plenipes has evolved a really long gut to get the most out of its food, and the legs are simply a by-product.

7 cm long gut samples were flushed with cold water, opened out and fixed with pins on a wax plate.

Long, gut-wrenching stuff.

"He's gone through a long, gut-wrenching, difficult process and emerged as a very talented, tough candidate". When Obama began his campaign in early 2007, the road ahead was a fairly conventional one, not unlike the one followed by Gary Hart or Bill Bradley before him: Battle for the first three or four states and momentum steamrolls the opponent.

Shooting for, say, ten kilometers in forty minutes on a rowing machine or a 500-kettlebell swing workout are goals that can satisfy that craving for long, gut-busting endurance workouts without causing as much joint damage.

ObamaCare often suffers from the same "gotcha" policies that have long gutted the protection of patients.

It is difficult to assess the generality of this pattern, although the stated conditions (long gut-passage time, rapid movements, relatively small home range) suggest that it is more likely to occur in small reptiles and mammals, and perhaps also in strongly-territorial passerines (should their high mobility compensate for their short gut-passage times).

This assumption was required by the nature of our own data, namely the combination of long gut-passage times of ingested seeds and the quick saturation of the disperser dispersal distance (resulting from their rapid speed of movement in relation to the home ranges).