Sentences with phrase «wild ancestors of»

Knowing the natural diet of the wild ancestors of small animals helps retailers evaluate the suitability of a food for each species of pet.

This lineage may show that humans began selective breeding of dogs soon after first domesticating the wild ancestors of our family pet.

As the wild ancestors of dogs consumed their prey, they ate the plants still contained in the stomach and intestines.

The main reason for this formula to be on our list of top picks is that it is a meat recipe which mimics the diet of the wild ancestors of your dog.

The wild ancestors of small herbivorous pets lived in grasslands, so grass is their natural environment.

The Urus is one of the large, wild ancestors of domestic cattle.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

Botanists are combing the planet for wild ancestors of soybeans, tomatoes, hard wheat, and grapes, believed to contain valuable genes for drought tolerance and other characteristics, but much diversity has already been lost.

Now, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has come a step closer to solving the puzzle by sequencing the genome of a wild ancestor of bread wheat known as Aegilops tauschii, a type of goatgrass.

The main wild ancestor of today's chickens, the red junglefowl Gallus gallus is endemic to sub-Himalayan northern India, southern China and Southeast Asia, where chickens were first domesticated 6,000 - 8,000 years ago.

And it showed that the domestication of cassava occurred in a place where humans have had their longest association with the wild ancestor of the plant.

The wild ancestor of cultivated adzuki bean is probably Vigna angularis var.

In keeping with Lamborghini tradition, the Urus is named after a famous bull, also known as aurochs; the Spanish - bred urus is considered a wild ancestor of today's domestic bull.

The wild ancestor of the housecat was a solitary creature.

The researchers are concerned, too, about the wild ancestor of Coffea arabica, so they identified those stretches of forest that would, if climate change becomes severe, be more likely to act as «refuges» for the crop's natural ancestor.

Not exact matches

After thousands of years of inadvertent selection for «tameness» the camp wolves started to become dependent on their human hosts and to even look different to their still wild ancestors.

In his wild state, centuries ago, the ancestor of the modern dog went through these otherwise inexplicable manouvers; and his descendant instinctively clings to the habit.

The new grant is helping the students eat more of the wild fish that dominated their ancestor's diets, Rosecrans said.

They're counting on the genes of the peanut's wild ancestors to unlock the plant's next evolutionary stage.

Their offspring was atypical — a freak of nature that couldn't remix with its wild ancestors and cousins.

But a new genetic analysis of ancient horse bones suggests that these horses have a tamed ancestor after all, making them feral rather than wild.

Because I think [a] lot of [times] people think domesticating them means we went out we took the original wild ancestors, and we sort of broke them to our ways, you know, did the equivalent of animal enslavement.

Horses» wild ancestors are also extinct, but remains from the warrior steeds of Genghis Khan and medieval knights, the Romans» chariot horses and the mounts of the ancient Scythians, Greeks and Persians might fill in gaps in horse history and prehistory.

South America's llamas and alpacas are domesticated versions of two wild camel species: guanaco (ancestor of llamas) and the smaller vicuña (alpacas» ancestor).

Both paths — scientists are still debating which was more likely for different animals — led to the creation of domesticated species or subspecies genetically distinct from their wild ancestors.

At Ohalo II, however, the team found traces of 143 kinds of wild plant seeds, including ancestors of wheat and barley.

Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.

Domesticated animals have a large number of wild ancestors, Frantz, Groenen, and their colleagues report online today in Nature Genetics.

In response to these pressures, weedy forms that evolved from the crop forms are taking on traits more like those of wild ancestors.

Scientists have now pinpointed Malus sieversii, a wild species of apple native to Kazakhstan, as the ancestor of the Macouns and Jonagolds filling our farmers» markets today.

Wild Relative Ancestors or cousins of modern crops, usually the same species as their farmed counterparts.

Modern corn, the author argues, had not one ancestor but two: it is derived from a cross between a primitive corn and a perennial form of the wild grass teosinte.

Life's future potential in our universe is grander than the wildest dreams of our ancestors, so let's make the most of it!

Researchers who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310 - year - old corn cob have discovered that the maize grown in central Mexico all those years ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to its wild ancestor.

The evidence that the SWEET4c gene was selected during domestication was discovered by the team of Jeff Ross - Ibarra at UC Davis, while comparing SWEET4 sequences from modern maize against its wild ancestor Teosinte.

«It seems likely that these parasites co-evolved with African apes, suggesting that the ancestors of bonobos were infected, and implying that most wild - living communities of bonobos have somehow lost their malaria parasites,» said coauthor Paul Sharp, PhD, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Edinburgh.

THEY may not have known about genes and Darwinism, but our ancestors knew how to drive the evolution of once - wild beasts to serve their own needs.

For much of human history, our ancestors were hunter - gatherers, mostly nomadic people who lived by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food.

Our ancestors also began domesticating and breeding animals for food, but the result was more fat in our diet: Wild game has only 4 percent of fat, whereas supermarket beef has about 36 percent [source: Bjerklie, Lemonick].

That bowling ball of white meat in your oven is a far cry from its wild ancestors.

Around 10,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, our sharp - eyed ancestors noticed an odd stand of wild grass.

The process of creating these tame foxes mirrors the way dogs are thought to have been domesticated from their wild wolf ancestors.

Since ancient populations of African wild ass were ancestors of donkeys, she wanted to learn more about the behavior of African wild asses to inform her work on domestication.

A paleo diet mimics what our hunter - gatherer ancestors ate in the wild: mostly whole, anti-inflammatory foods, very low in sugar and devoid of the most common food sensitivities that lead to inflammation, like gluten or dairy.

However, the essential oil derives from the seeds of its wild ancestor, also known as Queen Anne's Lace, which grows prolifically in hedges and fields, and should not be mistaken for the cheaper macerated carrot oil.

The best evidence available suggests that most of our Paleolithic ancestors ate high - meat diets, supplemented by locally - available wild plants.

Visit your nearby bookstore and you'll find entire books written on the subject of carbohydrates, with authors making wild claims that «there is no biological need for carbohydrates in your diet,» arguing that our Paleolithic ancestors subsisted for thousands of years on diets low in carbohydrate energy or completely devoid of carbohydrate altogether.

That's how 28 - chromosome emmer wheat, for instance, mated with another 14 - chromosome wild grass, goat grass, and yielded the ancestor of all modern wheat, the first Triticum aestivum species.

A 2004 study analysing plants of the Upper Palaeolithic age found in the Middle East proves that grains, wild wheat and barley featured heavily on our ancestors» dining tables.

A lover of vulnerable people, of wild things and wild places, of all our ancestors, and of the simple miracle of life itself, she is particularly fond of rhythmic movement and gentle devotion.