It produced the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico as well as wiping out non-avian dinosaurs and a vast array of other species.
Thousands of conservationists and government officials are in Johannesburg for the 12-day Cities gathering, seeking to hammer out new international trade regulations to protect a vast array of different species, with several proposals on whether to tighten or ease controls on the ivory trade on the agenda.
But others are less so, for example the mangrove swamps and coral reefs that provide natural barriers against storms that devastate coastal regions; the vast array of plant species that provide pharmaceutical companies with endless genetic resources used for live-saving drugs; and the insects that provide essential pollination for growing around 70% of the world's most productive crops.
In eukaryotes, there are three major types of RNA polymerase designated as Pol I, II, and III (with additional polymerase complexes in plants), which function to transcribe the vast array of RNA species that contribute to the highly complex and heterogeneous eukaryotic transcriptome.
Tag-recapture data grant researchers the opportunity to synthesize a vast array of information for species they are studying.
Even most fruit fly geneticists are unaware that North America is home to a vast array of native fruit fly species beyond the garbage-can-loving Drosophila melanogaster they usually study.
Mangroves are important habitats for a vast array of plant and animal species.
Besides its massive size, the oceanic sanctuary in the South Pacific is home to a vast array of marine life, hosting 48 different shark species, 25 mammal species, 19 nesting bird species and five sea turtle species, including the endangered green turtle.
Despite a number of previous attempts to partition the vast array of phenotypic variation within this species [11], [13] [17], [27], [37], [38], inclusion of all described phenotypes account for only 71% (AMOVA) and 69% (MMR) of the variance in the CR data (Table 1), and more variation can be explained using the molecular data alone.
Millions of species, constructed from a vast array of different chemicals, interact in innumerable ways.
To help organize and understand the vast array of points of view, ecologists often generalized species into a few broad groups.
