Sentence examples for a conspicuous pattern from inspiring English sources

An example is when a conspicuous pattern, such as the black and yellow coloration of many wasps and bees, advertises to a predator that an animal is unpalatable or poses special dangers.

As the photographs above show, the two birds (cuckoo on the left, sparrowhawk on the right) are similar in size, shape and plumage, and both have a conspicuous pattern of bars on their breasts a pattern found on many species of hawk, but not on the cuckoo's relatives.

A third approach, motion dazzle, confuses the observer with a conspicuous pattern, making the object visible but momentarily harder to locate.

Ophrys heldreichii, which is pollinated by Eucera berlandi, possesses a bright and complex labellum pattern, while O. dictynnae lacks such a conspicuous pattern (Figs.  1, 2).

Although miR-21 exhibited a conspicuous pattern of higher expression in males compared to females at 78 and 104 weeks (both ages exhibiting >1.5 fold difference), the sex difference was not statistically significant.

Adult zebrafish display a conspicuous pattern of alternating dark and light stripes; remarkably different from a relatively simple larval pattern, which is generated directly from neural crest cells migrating during embryogenesis (Kelsh et al., 1996).

Yet hierarchical clustering by differentially expressed genes (Figure 4) and scanning of the literature for their potential regulatory relations did not reveal any conspicuous pattern that would point to one or a few key regulator genes in the present study.

The lack of any conspicuous pattern of introns positioning in the globin genes of C. elegans reflects a dynamic pattern of intron insertion events, consistent with this hypothesis.

Males also purportedly show a more conspicuous pattern of transverse streaks on their dorsal side.

Applying the Kullback-Leibler measure helps to assess the state of the read data in more depth; a 'smooth' set of divergence values implies a homogenous read set, while any conspicuous patterns in the divergences identify biases and can help to direct further chemical and computational analysis.

Moreover, some Ophrys species show a bright and conspicuous pattern on the labellum which has been hypothesised to mimic traits of the pollinator's female, such as the wings or body-markings to make the flower more attractive for the males (Kullenberg 1961; Paulus 2006, 2007).