Sentences with phrase «between voles»

Generally, they don't distinguish rabbits from the squirrels we may not mind having in our yards, or between voles and the city rats we decidedly don't want.

Conquering the divide and mating with a female after just six hours of her company can form a lifelong pair - bond between voles.

Functional variation in vasopressin 1a receptor gene structure within and between vole species predicts behavior Elizabeth Hammock, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory University, Atlanta, Georga, USA

Not exact matches

Neuroscientists studying mammals from voles to hyenas are discovering key correlations between brain chemicals and social strategies.

Whether he is recounting the relationship between fungi, vole faeces and fir - tree regeneration, or the complexities of fire dynamics, it is, Pastor says, natural observation, those backstories and the painstaking work of recording that are the keys to the storehouse of ecological knowledge.

«Our results in prairie voles have identified a biological mechanism that could explain the link between discordant drinking and relationship breakdown, but we will need to do further work to confirm this for humans,» says Ryabinin.

The brains of montane voles, on the other hand, have far fewer vasopressin receptors and therefore make much weaker connections between pair bonding and pleasure.

Asymmetric and differential gene introgression at a contact zone between two highly divergent lineages of field voles (Microtus agrestis).

«If you think about statistical correlation between average life span and body size in mammals it generally tends to be positive - gorillas, elephants and whales are much longer lived than shrews, voles and mice,» says Daniel Promislow, professor of genetics at the University of Georgia.