Example sentences for: sapiens

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  • But thus far, the country’s earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.

  • In the course of our search for genes encoding proteins displaying significant similarity with the yeast yCCR4 factor, the best hits were found for cDNAs encoding a family of proteins from C. elegans, D. melanogaster, M. musculus, and H. sapiens, that we further characterized by both in silico and in vivo approaches.

  • The karyotypes of humans and the African and Asian great apes are remarkably well conserved, with relatively few large-scale chromosomal changes among these species despite the considerable phenotypic and biological differences between hominoids [ 1 2 3 ] . This conservation is particularly relevant in comparisons between the human ( Homo sapiens ; HSA) and common chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ; PTR) genomes, for in order to completely ascertain the evolution of our own lineage it is necessary to understand what differentiates us at the genomic level from our closest relatives.

  • Our own, specific, descriptive name, sapiens , comes from the Latin word to know.

  • Data from the following species were assembled into presumptive orthology groups (hereafter, proteins) and aligned [ 36 ] : Aquifex aeolicus , Bacillus subtilis , Borrelia burgdorferi , Chlamydia trachomatis , Escherichia coli , Haemophilus influenzae , Helicobacter pylori, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma pneumoniae , Rickettsia prowazekii, Synechocystis sp., and Treponema pallidum (Eubacteria), Archaeoglobus fulgidus, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, Methanococcus jannaschii, Pyrococcus abyssi , and P. horikoshii (Archaebacteria: Euryarchaeota), and Arabidopsis thaliana, Caenorhabditis elegans, Dictyostelium discoideum, Drosophila melanogaster, Gallus gallus, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Oryza saticva, Plasmodium falciparum, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Trypanosoma sp. , and Xenopus laevis (Eukaryota).


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