Sentences with phrase «of animal colonies»

Fleming is seeking a technician to support the caring, reproduction and maintenance of animal colonies (mouse), under the program InfrafrontierGR: the Greek Research Infrastructure for phenotyping and archiving of model mammalian genomes.

That the construction of super-organisms is a hazardous operation (like all Life's major transactions) is something of which we find ample evidence in the study of animal colonies, or, where Man is concerned, the spectacle afforded by recent totalitarian experiments.

Not exact matches

Corals are animals, the translucent creatures that form huge colonies and create a variety of structures.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

Furthermore, by being in groups (herds, colonies) through the gregarious instincts, the animal is better able to preserve its species compared to infra - animal forms of life.

The democratic societies have no one supreme or dominant member, with examples being such things possibly as stones and probably as some cell - colonies and even special forms of many - celled plants and animals.42 Monarchic societies, on the other hand, do have a supreme or dominant member which radically subordinates the parts to its ruling purpose but which can never completely rob the parts of all measure of control over themselves.

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colony.

Animals from New South Wales were also sent to the French colony of New Caledonia, and in small numbers farther afield to Russia, Japan and India.

In view of the ongoing controversy over cattle colonies, it is interesting to note that Buhari owns a ranch in which, it must be assumed, his animals are kept.

However, they showed more of the behaviour when the call came from a bat of the same species but a different colony (Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016 / j.anbehav.2010.03.025).

Turning back to his colony, Keeler realized that half of his animals were blind.

Likewise, instead of researching how alcohol exposure affected the developing rat fetus, I daydreamed about a career that didn't involve microscopes, animal colonies, or behavioral testing.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

On the other hand, King discovered five years ago that a different marine bacterium, Algoriphagus machipongonensis, makes S. rosetta form colonies reminiscent of an animal embryo.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

Cells in most animals and plants use short - interfering RNA (siRNA) segments to inhibit the formation of viral proteins; here siRNA designed to target IAPV would be fed to colonies as part of double - stranded RNA mixed into a syrup.

The protagonists were colonies of tiny, filter - feeding animals.

So any of the animals that are endangered or likely to become extinct because of habitat destruction, we're pulling them into zoospredominantly rescuing the animals that are going to die anywayand housing them, learning every single detail about how we can breed them and establishing satellite colonies of that species so that we're ready when the cure does come, when we can rebuild habitat.

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shows that tree bumblebees have rapidly spread despite them carrying high levels of an infection that normally prevents queen bees from producing colonies.

«They nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies and often gang up on a predator,» says Pat Monaghan, a professor of animal ecology at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

Also the species composition of bats seems to play a role: Colonies with vampire bats, feeding on other animal's blood, supply more nitrogen to the trees than those without vampire bats.

This sort of communication may occur in pipes, across colonies of soil bacteria, and in the intestinal tract of animals, potentially aiding the spread of disease.

This was little different from the normal rate of retaining mates: in 1990, 72 per cent of the birds in the same colony kept their previous mates (Animal Behaviour, vol 50, p 455).

Over several years studying an elephant seal colony in Año Nuevo State Park, California, the researchers were able to recognize many of the individual animals just by the rhythm of their voices, he says.

Climate change is a big problem for corals, the colony - forming animals that provide a home to an estimated 25 % of marine life.

When fighting diseases, ant colonies show a remarkable similarity with the immune system that protects the organism of vertebrate animals.

From the video, Lissette and her fellow researchers from the NOC and the Universities of Bristol, Essex and Newfoundland identified over 30 000 animals living on the surface of the Annan Seamount in the Equatorial - Atlantic, including spectacular cold - water coral colonies.

An international research paper, led by the University of Sydney, shows that the majority of micro-organisms in the termite gut is not found in any other animals and that they are not only inherited from parents but are also shared across colonies and among distantly related termite species.

Animals that live in large social colonies may benefit from many aspects of group living, but also have to contend with many of the downsides of living and foraging, with countless neighbors.

During tasks when the colony's most dominant monkey was traveling toward the reward under the observation of a lower - ranking animal, the magnitude of ICS grew steadily as the passenger approached the observer.

Many animals steer clear of ants because they're often spiny and bad - tasting, he notes, and one alarmed ant can rouse hundreds of its colony members to a biting, stinging defense.

«First arrival at the colony is crucial in the mating system of colonial animals like seabirds,» writes Patrick Pinet of the University of Réunion, France.

Recently, Paul Sherman, an animal behaviorist at Cornell, and Timothy Judd, a graduate student at Colorado State University, have observed another hive - like trait among the pink, gerbil - size animals: some of them behave — at least in laboratory colonies — like selfless worker bees, providing food for the rest of a sometimes indolent colony.

A few of them even clump loosely together into colonies, bringing evolution to the very brink of the animal age.

Corals are colonies of small, tentacled animals that encase themselves in bony structures made of the mineral calcium carbonate, the same material that makes up the shells of other sea creatures.

We are skilled at sourcing the right animal for the study, including offering unique research opportunities through our colony of multi-generational, pedigreed and genomically - sequenced vervet / African green monkeys.

So far, Dr Gross and his team have tested Turing Learning in robot swarms but the next step is to reveal the workings of some animal collectives such as schools of fish or colonies of bees.

Although the fungal filaments and spores are microscopic, the colony can be very large with individuals of some species rivaling the mass of the largest animals or plants.

A colony of these animals was established in our facility after receiving breeding pairs from P.C. Butler (University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA).

• Microbial / viral detection The unit offers detection screening assays for numerous bacterial and viral contaminants of animal house colonies.

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.

colony A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure: a colony of seals.

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.

The animals weigh 7 - 8 gram and live in small colonies of up to 40 individuals.

Activities concerning DNA targetting vectors construction, mouse ES cells generation, genetically modified mice generation, mice colony housing, breeding and maintenance under respect of ethical rules and animal welfare, rederivation, cryorecovery and cryopreservation services., have been certified ISO 9001:2015.

Careful colony management ensures the timely use of animals by scientists in experiments, as well as the enforcement of humane endpoints.

Isolation of single cell - derived colonies is required for developing methods of Cas9 / gRNA - mediated targeting in livestock by animal cloning.

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The Oklahoma Alliance for Animals assisted with funding the rescue, veterinary evaluation, disease testing, spay / neuter, and placement of the cats in the colony described here.