Eons ago these messages were delivered by the genes of our vertebrate ancestors on this planet.
If the nethrops is ever to acquire some vertebrate friends, it should be tried in the Clyde too.
Last fall the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists condemned Discovery Channel Online and Amazon.com for sponsoring a joint online fossil sale.
While many invertebrate creatures are capable of replacing damaged organs, the zebrafish is unusual as a vertebrate with this ability.
Sten Grillner's group at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has therefore spent many years studying lampreys, in order to gain insights about vertebrate nerves.
One might conclude that this trait evolved to ease their passage through a narrow birth canal, but it seems to result from the way vertebrate skeletons develop.
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology categorically opposes the private ownership of fossils, and many museums shun collectors' specimens, yet scientifically valuable information is regularly uncovered by private companies.
Of more than 40, 000 vertebrate species on the planet, the reproductive biology of fewer than 100 (among them humans and most domestic livestock) are known in any detail.
He then wandered into the Vertebrate Origins gallery and, for the hundredth time, wondered about the strange openings that Archosauria had in front of their eyes and behind their nostrils.
But if the propensity to addiction is also genetically controlled in humans, it could provide a mechanism to address the problem at the cellular level, by regulating tyramine or its vertebrate equivalent.
But Ms Hellawell revealed on September 23rd, at the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology's annual meeting, that she and her team had found evidence that toxic algae were responsible for the mass deaths.
"Because the honey bee brain is smaller and more accessible than any vertebrate brain, we hope to eventually be able to produce an accurate and complete model that we can test within a flying robot, " said Dr Marshall.
At the Denver fossil show, in September, I stopped by the booth of Mike Triebold, a veteran Colorado hunter who has been working with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists to find a way for academics and legitimate commercial hunters to collaborate.
"Clearly the definitive abandonment of dependence on trees... has to count as one of the most radical shifts in adaptive zone ever made by any vertebrate since the very first tetrapod heaved itself out of water and on to terra firma, " he said.
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And, if vertebrate predators are to be ultimately and non-violently dealt with, New Zealand will have to embrace, in my opinion, immuno-contraception for possums, rats and mustelids, just as so many other countries have done so for countless numbers of species -from deer to elephants.
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