Sentence examples for evolution of amphibians from inspiring English sources

Vertebrate animals made the transition to land via the evolution of amphibians from air-breathing crossopterygian fish during Devonian times.

For adaptive evolution, we found no direct evidence for evolution of amphibians or reptiles in response to climate change over time.

In contrast, the additional ADAM10- and ADAM28-like metalloproteinases, which presumably arose as results of gene duplication, may have conferred selective advantages during the evolution of amphibians.

As the basal lineage of amphibians and land vertebrate, this characteristic of the caecilian genome is valuable in the study concerning the genome biology and evolution of amphibians and early tetrapods.

These findings broaden our knowledge on the evolution of amphibian MHC systems.

This pattern of mixed loci number can be explained by the occurrence of gene duplication/loss during the evolution of amphibian MHC class I genes, that is, the birth-and-death model of evolution [ 35].

However, relatively few studies have focused on the evolution of amphibian MHC class I genes, and those few studies have involved a limited number of amphibian species, mainly Ambystoma mexicanum in the Caudata [ 36] and two closely related Pipidae species (Xenopus lavies and X. (Silurana) tropicalis) in the Anura [ 37- 39].

Thus, in the history of vertebrate evolution, the rhipidistians are credited with having made the great transition in anatomy and physiology involved in the emergence from water and resulting in the evolution of the amphibians.

Pupils will start with simple concepts of change, adaptation and natural selection illustrated by the evolution of fish to amphibians to mammals, for example.

Documentation of the slowly changing flow through time, as envisaged by Darwin, emerges clearly from Romer's studies of the evolution of extinct fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.

Chris Schneider has a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley and is now on the staff at Boston University where he specializes in ecology and evolution of reptiles and amphibians, molecular systematics and population genetics, tropical biology, and conservation.