Sentences with phrase «maintaining animal colonies»

We thank the Animal Facility Core for help in maintaining animal colonies and other members of the Tang laboratory for support and helpful discussion.

The authors point out that the realities of maintaining an animal colony make it impossible for such similarity to be maintained long term; animals are moved, new colonies are started, and logistical and ethical realities all mean that divergence due to genetic drift and founder effects is the rule, not the exception.

Not exact matches

While isolated colonies of laboratory animals are susceptible to becoming less genetically diverse, Brekke et al.'s findings suggest that diversity is maintained across many different populations.

(a) The animal care and control division or its designee, in order to encourage the stabilization of the free - roaming cat population in the city, may: (1) Trap any free - roaming cat in a humane manner; (2) Have the cat surgically sterilized, ear - tipped, and vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian; and (3) Release the cat to animal care and control for adoption or other disposition in accordance with law, or to a colony caretaker who will maintain the cat as part of a managed colony of free - roaming cats.

Colony Park Animal Hospital believes that maintaining good grooming and bathing habits is essential to your pet's happiness and well - being.

Several of the largest pet food producers, such as Hills, Walthams and Purina, maintain their own colonies of dogs and cats, and test their foods on hundreds of animals over years or even multiple generations.

Like Volusia County in the Loggerhead Turtle cases, these local governments need to be aware that they could be found in violation of the ESA for allowing the take of endangered species by permitting cat colonies to be maintained, or if their animal control ordinance is deemed not to be specifically intended to protect endangered species from free - roaming cats in their jurisdiction.