Sentence examples for mirror species from inspiring English sources

Early on, Sullivan goes so far as to call the rat "our mirror species," a faithful follower that turns up wherever humans pitch their tents and toss out their garbage.

Sullivan never falls in love with his subject the way he did in his book on the Meadowlands rats are rats, after all but he does persuade us that rats are "our mirror species, reversed but similar, thriving or suffering in the very cities where we do the same".

With a regular mirror, species that prefer head tail orientation during lateral display are unable to do so, which might lead to aberrant responses that would not accurately reflect behaviour in a real contest.

Cancer development within an individual is also an evolutionary process, which in many respects mirrors species evolution.

However, even in these datasets, tree topologies of both interacting and non-interacting proteins do not mirror the species tree, ruling out shared evolutionary history as the signal of correlated evolution.

Initially we observed conserved syntenic relationships among AF gene clusters that mirrored phylogenetic species groupings.

The phylogenetic tree of plsX mirrors the species tree of Bartonella (supplementary fig. S5 and table S2, Supplementary Material online).

This is supported by the clear effect of island size on the intensity of the genetic founder effect, mirrored by species diversity.

The phylogeny of mmr-b mirrors the species phylogeny based on hsp82, coxI and its1 found here and in previous work [ 15- 17].

Next, the ancestral element of D. yakuba and D. erecta diverged, also mirroring the species divergence (Additional File 1); however, in the melanogaster complex, the 412 sequences did not form monophyletic groups within each species.

Perhaps mirroring our own species, the juvenile chimps and orangutans had the most interest in the iPad and used the highest variety of the nine applications made available to them.