Sharks are particularly vulnerable to overfishing because they grow slowly, mature late and produce few young.
Hadn't Gebrselassie, the diminutive Ethiopian with the wicked kick, been moving more slowly of late?
Slowly, perhaps late, frontrunners will emerge, and the field, which is dominated by "principle-ist" candidates, will thin.
Every day, your body temperature starts low and rises slowly until late in the evening, when the wave crests and plunges down again for the night.
In particular, coastal species like the sawfish that grow slowly, mature late, and produce relatively few young are vulnerable to being wiped out by overfishing, pollution, and other human activities.
Because sea turtles grow so slowly, mature late and migrate vast distances before reproducing, getting feedback from our conservation efforts requires a lot of patience.
Sharks are also inherently sensitive to overfishing as the grow slowly, mature late in life and produce few young," says National Geographic's Explorer-in-residence and honorary NRDC trustee Sylvia Earle.
Often, to get the sought-after part of the shark, the fin of the animal is sliced off and the shark is left to die at sea. "In general, sharks grow slowly, mature late and produce few young over long lifetimes, leaving them exceptionally vulnerable to overexploitation and slow to recover from depletion," reads a statement on the initiative's website.
Aside from EcR, bmo-miR-10 and bmo-miR-14 may together down-regulate the expression of Jhe, inducing juvenile hormone to accumulate slowly at late MLS for normal larva development after ecdysis.
