Sentence examples for the evolution in fish of from inspiring English sources

Now, Long's own specific interest concerns the evolution, in fish, of vertebrae from notochords, or continuous collagenous rods without bones.

By integrating size-specific life-history processes with elements of harvest-induced life-history evolution and management strategy evaluation, we expect our approach and results to shed new light on the causes and consequences of harvest-induced evolution in fish and thereby aid the development of sustainable harvest regimes.

This rate is faster than previously published genome-wide substitution rate estimates available across mammals (2.2 × 10-9 per synonymous site per year; [ 61]), but is nearer the substitution rate of teleosts (1.25 × 10-6 in cichlids; [ 46]) as the rates of molecular evolution in fish are known to be fast compared to other vertebrates [ 62].

Nevertheless, to confirm our findings were consistent, we conducted a separate set of analyses on instances of repeated evolution in fish, which were the largest taxonomic group represented in our data set (Fig.  1a) and were broadly similar in their generation times.

Author(s): Michelle Sale, The New York Times Learning Network Javaid Khan, The Bank Street College of Education in New York City Suggested Time Allowance: 1 hour Objectives: Students will: 1. Examine a graphic illustrating how the discovery of Tiktaalik fills in a gap in the evolution of fish to land animal.

The researchers say that motion detection must have appeared early in the evolution of fish, and has been conserved in their descendants, including mammals.

Our results support an important role of the FSGD and other types of duplication in the evolution of pigmentation in fish.

This important association of maxillary and premaxillary kinesis with the functional and morphological diversity of the Pomacentridae reflects a much broader pattern in the evolution of fish feeding.

Finer-scale studies of venom gland evolution in fishes will require continued systematic studies of venomous fish families to elucidate the relationships of the species contained therein.

The evolution of fish shape in ichthyopterygians is still being studied, but several key factors are already known (Fig. 5).

The presence of conserved synteny but lack of gene linkage are in line with the hypothesis that inversions were more prevalent than translocations in the evolution of fish genomes (e.g. Postlethwait et al. [ 36]).