Sentences with word «domesticus»

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.

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.

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

In 2014, a study ruffled feathers with claims that bones from northern China showed the wild G. gallus had been chickenized into G. gallus domesticus about 10,000 years ago.

They turned up two more sets of genomic regions, or tracts, that showed hybridization events; one appears to predate the colonization of Europe by M. m. domesticus, and the other affected the subjects» sense of smell — a definite evolutionary advantage for mice looking for food or mates.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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A massive effort known as the Collaborative Cross yielded 738 hybrid mouse lines by breeding an original eight strains of mice from three different subspecies, Mus musculus domesticus, M. musculus musculus and M. musculus castaneus (SN Online: 2/17/12).

The bird's origin story starts in the Middle East, where one of its parents, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), is native.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The analysis revealed that human mobility influenced competitive relationships between two species of mice — the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) and a short - tailed field mouse (M. macedonicus)-- that continue to live in and around modern settlements in Israel.

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.

They then tested and compared the gut microbiomes (collective genomes of the gut microbiota) of the wild mice (Mus musculus domesticus) and a common strain of laboratory mice, called C57BL / 6, from multiple sources.

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.

After people and their stone buildings arrived, another species dominated — Mus domesticus (Doh - MES - tih - kus).

Commensalism in M. m. domesticus is probably the result of human development of sedentary ways of life about 15000 years ago in the Near East [39].

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

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.

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