Sentences with phrase «mandible size»

LG / J mice are often compared to SM / J (Stock No. 000687) for quantitative trait locus analysis in the areas of atherosclerosis, obesity, and mandible size.

Not exact matches

Hosken bred 12 generations of beetles to create groups in which all the males had either small, large or average - sized mandibles.

It's official (in the horned beetle world at least), females prefer courtship over competitiveness — and it doesn't matter about the size of your mandibles either.

It holds ribs the size of small logs and 6 - foot - long mandibles — modern bones similar to the subfossils Alter has studied.

Insects have not been considered as internal seed carriers before because due to the small size of their bodies and mandibles, it was thought that they chewed up the seeds.

Researchers had to sift through 100 square - meters of forest floor for every four or five of the rare specimens, then use a high - power microscope and micrometer measuring tool to note variations in size, the shape of their mandibles, and patterns of hair on their exoskeletons — all defining characteristics of individual species.

Dr. I Lerh Brisbin at the University of Georgia has said, «The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is not different than that of any breed of dog.

With respect to this, he states, The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is no different than that of any breed of dog.

As Dr. Lehr Brisbin of the University of Georgia told the American Pit Bull Foundation: «The few studies which have been conducted on the structure of the skulls, mandibles, and teeth of «Pit Bulls» show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology is no different than that of any breed of dog.»