... vibrations Phylogeny Behaviour National Geographic NGS-70228R-20 Leverhulme Trust http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275 RPG-2018-235 Human Frontier Science Program http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004412 RGP0043/2022 Vibrations are key components...

... technique. We then performed an analysis to test for potential variability in contrast sensitivity depending on the corneal diameter to the axial length ratio, a proxy of the retinal image brightness. To account for potential influences of evolutionary relatedness, we included phylogeny in our analyses. We...

... in endotherms. Bioenergetics Endotherms ATP/O Body mass Metabolic scope Phylogeny French Government Body mass ( M b ) is certainly one of the most fundamental and significant elements that characterize an organism's morphological, behavioral, physiological and ecological...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2023 Summary: Sleep is a familiar, everyday experience that is near ubiquitous in animals. We review sleep across taxa, highlighting the diversity of observed sleep behaviour and insights into sleep physiology and function. Sleep Evolution Phylogeny Sleep...

... in our knowledge of the evolution of neuropeptide signalling systems that have been enabled by comparative genomics and neuropeptide receptor deorphanisation. Evolution Invertebrate Neuropeptide Phylogeny Receptor Vertebrate The release of peptides as intercellular signalling molecules...

... useful characters for determining the positions of sponges within the animal tree. Intertwined with discussion of basal metazoan phylogeny is consideration of the evolution of neuronal systems. Recent data show that neural systems of ctenophores are vastly different from those of other animals and use...

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... of mammalian . We used both conventional and phylogenetically informed allometric regression models to analyze of 77 ‘species’ (including subspecies or separate populations within species) in relation to body size, phylogeny, diet and measurement method. Both body mass and allometrically mass-corrected showed...

... and manuscript revision. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 31 7 2013 19 8 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 fish cardiac control pacemaker real-time reverse transcriptase PCR anoxia HCN channel phylogeny The regular...

.... 4 2 2013 28 7 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 behavioural test gene expression eyes phylogeny vision opsins The hunting spider Cupiennius salei Keys is a nocturnal predator that has been the focus of interest for a long time because...

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... address: Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 25 3 2011 © 2011. 2011 arboreal locomotion performance kinematics Boa constrictor Pantherophis guttatus phylogeny concertina locomotion...

... Ahyong S. T. ( 1997 ). A phylogenetic analysis of the Stomatopoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) . J. Crust. Biol. 17 , 695 - 715 . Ahyong S. T. , Harling C. ( 2000 ). The phylogeny of the stomatopod Crustacea . Austr. J. Zool. 48 , 607 - 642 . Ahyong S. T. , Jarman...

.... trispinosus appears to be relatively basal for the batrachoidids. A combination of more complete taxon sampling in creating a phylogeny of the Batrachoididae as well as determining the, as yet, unclear sister taxon to the family( Greenfield et al., 2008 ; Miya et al., 2005 ; Patterson and Rosen, 1989...

... ; McMahon, 1975 ; Alexander, 1977 ; Biewener, 1983a ). locomotion scaling limb posture kinematics limb skeleton morphology allometry Felidae cat evolution phylogeny © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 22 12 2006 * Author for correspondence (e-mail: jaynebc...

.... Despite their potential utility, no explicit, phylogeny-based, broad-scale comparative studies of the evolution of gas exchange in insects have been undertaken. This may be due partly to the preponderance of information for the endopterygotes, and its scarcity for the apterygotes and exopterygotes. Here...

... type fiber-type composition histochemistry Phrynosomatidae phylogeny skeletal muscle Most evolutionary biologists agree that it is desirable to begin comparative studies with a lineage of organisms that displays adequate diversity in the traits of interest, yet is closely enough related...

... with phylogenetically based statistical methods, and of comparative approaches in general, both practical and theoretical. It is our personal opinion that the incorporation of phylogeny information into comparative studies has been highly beneficial, not only because it can improve the reliability of statistical...

... ) * These authors contributed equally to this work 31 3 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 Panagrolaimus nematode anhydrobiosis desiccation trehalose phylogeny rDNA ITS rDNA D3 Many organisms from diverse taxonomic groups possess the ability to survive extreme...

... and body mass values analyzed in this review. Thus, a phylogenetic bias in the data may lead to incorrect statistical conclusions. The influence of phylogeny can be minimized by using ICA( Felsenstein, 1985 ; Garland et al., 1998 ). The allometric relationships described herein were reanalyzed using ICA...