Sentences with phrase «cryptotermes domesticus»

Along the opposite wall is an incubator dialed to 106 degrees Fahrenheit, the body temperature of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus — the domestic duck.

Southern black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans) is with its prey house cricket (Acheta domesticus) trapped in spider web.

Barbara Rehermann and Stephan Rosshart first collected 800 wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) in the Washington, D.C., metro area, and compared their DNA and gut bacteria both with a lab mouse strain and with wild mice from all over the world.

They tested the output of three greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — from five species of insects, including mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and house crickets (Acheta domesticus).

NOT SO HUMBLE Humans owe much of their success over the millennia to the bounty of Sus scrofa domesticus.

The sequence grabbed by M. musculus musculus» PRDM9 zinc fingers is slightly different from the ones preferred by M. musculus domesticus» zinc fingers.

«We had no idea we were working with two subspecies, musculus and domesticus,» he says.

For example, the common house sparrow (Passer domesticus) has perching - type feet, and it indeed spends a lot of time perching on trees, other plants and structures in different environments.

So Thomas Cucchi, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, decided to turn to the creatures living alongside humans at the time, specifically house mice (Mus domesticus), which live almost exclusively in or near houses and planted fields.

Scientists comparing embryos of the Pekin duck, Anas platyrhynchos, which has an external penis, and the domestic chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus, which lacks one, have now figured out why this is.

Instead of retyping his entire paper, he simply tacked on his cat Chester, sneakily calling him «F.D.C. Willard» after his species name, Felix domesticus, his actual name, Chester, and the name of the cat's father, Willard.

Theodore A. Evans of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia and his colleagues tested drywood termites (Cryptotermes domesticus) to see what factors influence their dining decisions.

House mice (Mus domesticus) can swap between being polygamous and monogamous.

Passer domesticus brought into the lab and kept dimly illuminated at night were slower in fighting off West Nile infections than lab sparrows allowed full darkness, Kernbach reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Kohn previously detailed a mutation in common European house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) that gave them resistance to warfarin, a rodent poison also used as a blood thinner in humans.

The green region indicates the range of Mus spretus, the Algerian mouse, while the blue region indicates the range of Mus musculus domesticus, the common European house mouse, which also occupies the green region and beyond.

But when people were around, M. domesticus took advantage of people being around.

When people left these settlements for about 1,000 years some 12,000 years ago, the reverse occurred: M. domesticus left and M. macedonicus returned.

And one species — M. domesticus — took advantage of it to out - compete others, he says.

This breeding led to the creation of progenitors of modern laboratory mice as hybrids among M. m. domesticus, M. m. musculus and other subspecies.

In this study, we monitored the partner preference behaviour of female and male wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) from populations.

Churcher and Lawton (1987) concluded that cats were responsible for 30 % of the mortality of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in an English village.

It also states that Felis domesticus allergen 1 (Felid 1) could be an autoallergen responsible for the lesions seen in this complex.

That's one of the benefits of opting for wet food over dried kibble; it tastes amazing (well, if you consider yourself a member of the canis domesticus genus).

Plexiglas, quartz, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, epoxy clay, epoxy gel, resin, synthetic hair, clothing, leather shoes, thread, mirror, plaster, acrylic paint, latex paint, metal wire, glass eyes, sequins, ceramic, synthetic flowers, synthetic branches, glue, gold, domestic goose feathers (Anser anser domesticus), steel, coconuts, aqua resin, burlap, Sharpie ink, wood, coffee grounds, lighting system including fluorescent lights.

However, it is equally well - known that the common cat, whose scientific name is Felis domesticus, can not speak or read or write.