Sentence examples for direct prey from inspiring English sources
For sites where a direct prey to predator relationship exists, BMFfield values can be calculated.
They only attack their direct prey, and Roper believes they are not naturally aggressive to human beings.
A few plants that could be considered protocarnivorous or paracarnivorous are those that once had carnivorous adaptations but appear to be evolving or have evolved away from a direct prey relationship with arthropods and rely on other sources for obtaining nutrients.
These findings indicate that computations in the retina give rise to a visual stream which transforms sensory information into a directed prey capture response.
The combination of these two traits orients the feeding apparatus toward the anterior tip of the head, which facilitates the capture of horizontally directed prey.
This was accomplished by creating structural modifications to the landscape designed to direct the prey into killing zones or enclosures.
Between the lobes on either side of the mouth, many species of lobates have four auricles, gelatinous projections edged with cilia that produce water currents that help direct microscopic prey toward the mouth.
These flush-pursuit predators are thought to activate the hard-wired escape circuitry of insects [22] [25] and may even direct the prey into the most sensitive part of their visual field for efficient pursuit.
Collins et al. [ 15] calculated PE scores as a sum of direct bait-prey components (denoted as direct PE scores) and indirect prey-prey components (denoted as indirect PE scores).
The differences between the "spoke model" (only the direct bait-prey relation is considered as interactions) and "matrix model" (all the protein pairs in bait and prey sets are interconnected) described in Ref. [ 35] are also a good mechanism causing the different kind of distributions.
The first, a more "direct" bait-prey interaction mode, occurs when one protein was designated a bait and the other protein co-purified as a prey; this event is characterized by a high spoke value [ 17].
