Recognizing the "holobiont"— the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts — as a critically important unit of investigation opens up new investigative avenues and challenges the ways in which the biological sub-disciplines have heretofore characterized living entities.
Estes et al. (2009) characterized living environments using the 2001 National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD; Homer et al. 2004).
Here we present a new, inexpensive technique to characterize living skin using multi-view stereo and isogeometric analysis.
Dawkins is especially interested in active germ-line replicators, "since adaptations 'for' their preservation are expected to fill the world and to characterize living organisms" (1982a, p. 47).
Adding to that, the upper face of Dryopithecus, particularly the area above and between the orbits, begins to resemble the brow ridges that characterize living African apes (Begun 1994, 2002, 2007; Kordos and Begun 2001).
Here we explore the sometimes conflicting definitions of life itself establishing that there are two great categories of physicochemical processes that characterize living systems: (1) matter-energy transfer (all organisms require energy and nutrients to develop, grow, and maintain the soma); and (2) the genetic processes underlying reproduction.
But opponents miss the legal status of refugees in Turkey and neighboring states, as well as the deteriorating humanitarian conditions that now characterize living there. .
Hence, we have developed a novel and reliable method to characterize live host cell-microbe interactions and demonstrated the adaptability of FMN-green fluorescent protein for studying persistent host infections induced by obligate anaerobic organisms.
We used this technique to characterize live-cell bilayers and found that there were significant, frequency-dependent changes to the extracted cell moduli when compared to conventional analysis.
Traced back to 40,000 BC, this type of thinking was characterized by living in the moment, and feeling helpless before the terror of nature.
Mandibles of the "octodontoid" type characterized rodents living in woody areas and eating both fruits and seeds.
