Sentence examples for reptiles use from inspiring English sources

Some reptiles use musk-secreting glands when other defensive measures fail.

But many reptiles use temperature, an environmental signal, to switch genetically identical eggs between male or female developmental pathways.

Other animals, including other reptiles, use a wide variety of non-vocal sound communication, including hissing, jaw grinding or clapping, use of environment (such as splashing), and wing beating (possible in winged maniraptoran dinosaurs).

Ultimately we are interested in understanding how reptiles use their genomes in sex-specific ways to respond to environmental and evolutionary pressures, and how these responses affect reproduction and aging.

Per Uvdal, co-author of the study, says: "Our discovery enables us to make a journey through time and to revisit these ancient reptiles using their own biomolecules.

A section on how ancient herbivores chewed uses clips of camels to demonstrate a circular grinding motion and reptiles using an up and down movement, then uses animation to show a dinosaur jaw in motion, which looks like a combination of the above.

The established prevalence of various parasites in reptiles used as pet animals indicates the need for examination on specific pathogens prior to introduction to owners.

However, Rodda et al. [ 13, 19] reported high densities of reptiles using their 'total removal plots', which is a form of bounded quadrat.

To investigate the phylogenetic coherence between neutral and adaptive markers, we built two phylogenetic trees of reptiles using i) mtDNA control region and ii) MHC class I α genes.

Here, we present a phylogenetic estimate for Squamata based on combining much of the existing sequence data for squamate reptiles, using the increasingly well-established supermatrix approach [ 41, 72- 77].

However, the masses of the reptiles used here fall within the range of what is considered typical for an adult of each species, and, given our large sample and the nature of our results (see below), we expect that these effects will be minimal, yet may warrant future consideration.