Sentences with phrase «many affected animals»

No one gives a damn when they litter or cut down trees or anything else that directly affects all animals including this one.

Our team of campaigners work hard to keep on top of all the issues affecting animals in Australia but, as a small charity with limited time and resources, we simply can not act on everything.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

The two villages already have formed their own committee to study environmental issues, such as how the projects affect animal and plant life.

Up until this point, the five - year - old HD sheep displayed no signs of the illness, but this comprehensive study identified clear metabolic changes in the affected animals.

Also intriguingly, the team found that Zoloft acted on the worms» GABA signaling in a neuron that affects the animal's sleep.

It is both epizootic (an epidemic in non-humans) and panzootic (a disease affecting animals of many species especially over a wide area).

The scientists suspected that the lost enzyme might affect the animals» mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)-- stem cells found in the bone marrow that are capable of developing into both the bone cells and fat cells that make up our skeletons.

We have mouse models for many of these diseases, says Zeng, so we can treat the brains of affected animals with the same dye - and - dice approach.

Prion diseases affect animals and people.

Despite a dearth of human studies, more than 400 experiments have been done since the early 1970s to determine how cell phone radiation affects animals, cells and DNA.

Transcription - factor genes code for proteins that regulate the activity of other genes and so affect an animal's ability to respond to its environment.

«We were not sure how Bos taurus genes in the Brahman genome might affect the animals performance,» Professor Moore said.

And we suspect that these life experiences can alter the expression of genes, and as a result, affect an animal's susceptibility to stress,» says senior author Bruce McEwen, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.

Ingested plastic may affect the animal's health and capacity to move, or lead to rapid death when the stomach or intestines of the animal are blocked or severely damaged.

BTW the cilmat changes affects animals not only by destroing their food.

By analyzing the affected animals, the scientists isolated an aggressive new flavivirus, a class of viruses that includes yellow and dengue fevers — the first flavivirus ever identified in ducks.

The study, recently published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals that contrary to expectation, the massive glaciers that expanded and contracted across the region affected animal populations in different ways at different times.

Climate change in southern Africa affects animals through the direct effects of increasing air temperatures and aridity.

Scientists can affect an animal's behavior using a technique called optogenetics: They beam light onto genetically modified neurons, stimulating the production of dopamine and rewarding the animal for specific actions.

Molecular analysis showed that heart cells in affected animals were poorly developed and had mitochondrial defects, indicating that Sap130 - Pcdha9 gene interactions play a crucial role not only in heart development but also in regulating metabolic function of the cardiac muscle.

The team also glimpsed a mechanism: They found that the microbes affect the animals» own hormones.

Darwin was interested in studying how facial expressions affected an animal's survival, in order to understand their evolutionary history.

To investigate just how this change affects an animal's sense of novelty, Burwell and her colleagues infected brain cells in rats» perirhinal cortex with a virus containing a light - activated channel.

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

But because the concentrations that affected the animals were so small — 30 times lower than the current allowable limit in drinking water — the findings support the use of amphibians as environmental sentinels.

Some may work by interfering with the molecular events leading to memory; others by affecting the animal's general level of physical activity.

But Michael Hutchins, the director of conservation and science at the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, finds the methodology «highly simplistic» because it fails to address varying zoo conditions and management that can greatly affect animal welfare.

But now, the sky grows brighter when clouds roll in, possibly adversely affecting animals and plants

A study suggests that the Fukushima nuclear disaster may have indeed significantly affected animals and wildlife in the region due to radiation exposure.

White cottony fungal growth is seen on the snouts of affected animals, a prominent sign of White Nose Syndrome (WNS).

During these experiments, Bensmaia and his team manipulated various features of the electrical pulse train, such as its amplitude, frequency and duration, and noted how the interaction of each of these factors affected the animals» ability to detect the signal.

The warfaring potential of diseases that affect animals is often overlooked.

Prion diseases are a group of rare, fatal brain diseases that affect animals and humans.

Mandela Fernández - Grandon studies how odors affect animal behavior.

The support we provide to shelters concerned about any outbreak affecting their animals involves diagnostics as well as advice on management, and ways to minimize the impact for the animals as well as the shelter's resources.

Factors that can affect animal performance include temperature, humidity, or time of day.

For my post-doctoral project, I decided to focus on the question, «to what extent can atmospheric pollutants, such as CO2 and ozone, exert a selective effect on woody plant species, and how are the resulting changes in the genetic composition of the plant community likely to affect the animals that feed on them?»

Noise pollution, whether on land or under water, can affect animals in interesting — and not always positive — ways.

The team found that Zoloft acted on the worms» GABA signaling in a neuron that affects the animal's sleep, pointing to a potential pathway to understand why Zoloft works in some people and not others.

As well as George, there are similarly affected animals at various locations in North America — a wolf somewhere in the vast landscape of Montana, and an alligator in the waters of Florida.

it is about deforestation and how it affects the animals living there.

How this credit crisis works out and what price we end up paying has to be largely unknowable, depending as it does on hundreds of interlocking and often novel factors and how they in turn affect animal spirits.

At the end of the day, it is well within PETA's rights to try to affect change in companies with practices that adversely affect animals.

«As with any genetic problem, early diagnosis of the affected animals can keep them from being used for breeding and, therefore, should help reduce or eliminate the gene from the breed,» Dr. Best explains.

Hormonal changes associated with reproductive drive can affect an animal's temperament.

The problem affects the animals and the people around them as well.

As the disease progresses, affected animals will lose their appetite, start vomiting and show lethargy.

The fact that poverty affects the animals in the home is also a matter of common sense.

Variation in genetic background may alter expression of the disease allele in affected animals, thus accounting for variation in phenotypic expression of the disease.