Sentence examples for feeding function from inspiring English sources

This CCA is optimized using a modified Dolph Chebyshev feeding function and designed for two cell sizes.

The solidification time of the riser surrounded by three layers of air cavities was prolonged by over 30%, and its feeding function during solidification was significantly improved.

In Eq. 6 the value of γ in the expression for the feeding function represents the degree to which intraspecific competition is scramble versus contest.

Its extreme adaptations for herbivory at ground-level challenge current hypotheses regarding feeding function and feeding strategy among diplodocoids, the larger clade of sauropods that includes Nigersaurus.

It uses surveys of patterns of morphological variation relating to mouthpart and feeding function in numerous species of nematodes in combination with a more extensive and complete phylogeny to test whether the evolution of phenotypic plasticity is associated with the tempo of evolution.

This must be interpreted as a loss of the feeding function in connection with an increased amount of yolk, because the evolution of a complex structure as the ciliary feeding system without function has no adaptational value until complete (see section "Scenarios" below).

Mineralized structures are found in most metazoan phyla and often have supportive, protective, or feeding functions.

Another alternative is the possible degeneration of either the proximal endite, or a coxa related to the loss of feeding functions.

The majority of these transcripts was similar to proteins from Ixodes scapularis tick, a arachnid that may use these proteins of saliva for feeding functions, since saliva of blood-sucking animals contains powerful substances able to prevent blood clotting during their feeding [ 40].

Other muscles of the branchiomeric series have been modified for specialized feeding functions.

Capacitance measurements were performed by feeding ramp function signals (10 mV amplitude, 10 Hz) across the bilayer.