Sentences with phrase «of house mice»

Origins of house mice in ecological niches created by settled hunter - gatherers in the Levant 15000 y ago

Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

«The research provides the first evidence that, as early as 15,000 years ago, humans were living in one place long enough to impact local animal communities — resulting in the dominant presence of house mice,» said Fiona Marshall, study co-author and a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

The researchers followed up with two experiments: in one, they injected vasopressin into the brains of mouse parents from both of the wild species, and in the other, they genetically manipulated vasopressin neurons in the brains of house mice (Mus musculus) to excite them.

Agilodocodon scansorius (meaning «agile docodon» with a scansorial, or climbing, adaptation) was about 13 centimeters from head to tail and weighed about 27 grams, roughly the size of a house mouse.

Transcriptomic and Proteomic Profiling Revealed High Proportions of Odorant Binding and Antimicrobial Defense Proteins in Olfactory Tissues of the House Mouse — Barbora Kuntová — Frontiers in Genetics

Not exact matches

I would tend to give more credence to the competency of their views than those of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click of a mouse, all the while unconstrained by due - diligence standards or even such things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.

This week, the House of Mouse reported favorable attendance numbers at its only theme park on mainland China amid questions about the fallout from a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

However, Disney fanatics were less than pleased this week when the Mouse House announced it would be closing one of its most adorable rides to make way for a new Marvel - themed land by 2020.

Given Walt Disney's (DIS) family - friendly image, it is unlikely that the version of Deadpool currently in theaters would have been released by the Mouse House as it is (if at all), if Disney owned the rights to the character played by Ryan Reynolds.

Under Iger, the Mouse House has made some massive bets, most of which have paid off (the acquisitions of Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel, to name a few).

Offering up beloved characters from the House of Mouse and already popular toy properties was a way to lure in families multiple times over the course of the limited release of a themed meal.

I was a geek when a mouse was a furry thing that you chased out of your house not made a home on your desk.

The partnership will bring the House of Mouse back to Happy Meals more than a decade after Disney severed ties with the burger brand.

Following up on their hit pumpkin spice churros, the House of Mouse is now introducing a Christmas version with — wait for it — peppermint candy cane churros!

But she also has a lesser - known connection with the House of Mouse: she starred in a Disney Channel movie called «Genius.»

The Mouse House is close to buying some of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, to better compete with Netflix.

Disney's animation machine was looking flimsy there for a minute, but the House of Mouse effectively turned the ship around with a string of delightful animated films like Tangled and...

Live action remakes of beloved Disney classics have proven to be a safe bet for the House of Mouse, so they're probably able to make Beyoncé a pretty attractive offer.

C.S. Lewis's fictional villains often displayed a disdain for animals while Lewis, known to share bread with the mice of his house, was noted for his compassion.

««Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sugar - plums danced in their heads...»

i added a bit of oil olive to the dough and subbed pecans as i didn't have walnuts and used 1/2 bread flour and doubled the recipe as i wanted a super mega size loaf, going to use it for turkey sandwiches along with a tomato soup, can't wait for dinner, I'm so excited to find pom recipes as well, the chocolate dipped shortbread looks like christmas on a plate!Re; your mouse inthe house, we lived thru an infestation, only problem the children thought they were pets at the time!

I'd hang it out front so all of its little mice buddies know not to mess with my house.

I actually believe (hope) with all the changes back of house the board have finally realised Wenger can't even make them money anymore, never mind manage a team to glory (not Mickey Mouse cup, no money there) We were great and can still be great.

Build a house for a mouse, plant flowers for a butterfly garden, and meet one of our captive wild animals up close!

The witching hour was gone; the iron tongue of Big Ben had tolled twelve, and only the mice were stirring in Room 101, Portcullis House.

Apparently, the White House really is a dump — with work orders https://nypost.com/2017/11/30/turns-out-the-white-house-is-a-real-dump/ of mice and cockroach infestations in the West Wing, broken toilet seats in the Oval Office and numerous other problems.

Washington (CNN)- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team just played an impressive game of cat and mouse to avoid those of us in the Capitol Hill press corps.

It is a mistake to believe that what is needed to trigger a ballot is the click of computer mouse in some Portcullis House office, ordering 46 MP suicide bombers to go over the top, and send in letters demanding a ballot to Graham Brady.

Much of their work focuses on the house mouse (Mus musculus), which evolved to be commensal with humans: The mice are not domesticated like dogs or sheep, but they are dependent on living in and around a human settlement.

It kills just about any kind of rodent around, from Norway rat to house mice.

«Putting animals (or electrical control equipment) in a basement within a stone's throw from a tidal river is not a wise idea,» immunologist Alan Frey wrote in an e-mail to Nature after losing all of his mice, which were housed at the Smilow.

After housing virgin mice in a cage with a mouse of the opposite sex for 15 days, the mice had long - lasting changes in the brain, Dulac and colleagues discovered.

In normal mouse groups, the dominant mouse trims the whiskers and facial hair of subordinate mice, but the mutant mice, which were housed together, all had full sets of whiskers.

Concerned that the immune systems of clean mice might not be good proxies for the human immune system — no human is brought up in such clean conditions and fed such clean food — they housed lab mice with mice from a pet store.

In this study, the researchers first exposed mice to house dust mites and found that production of pro-inflammatory IL - 17A and IL - 17F was triggered in the lungs of the animals.

«Of mice and disease: Antibiotic - resistant bacteria discovered in NYC house mice: A study of mice collected from apartment buildings reveals they carry several disease - causing pathogens, some of which may be resistant to treatments.&raquOf mice and disease: Antibiotic - resistant bacteria discovered in NYC house mice: A study of mice collected from apartment buildings reveals they carry several disease - causing pathogens, some of which may be resistant to treatments.&raquof mice collected from apartment buildings reveals they carry several disease - causing pathogens, some of which may be resistant to treatments.&raquof which may be resistant to treatments.»

A study by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health finds New York City house mice carry bacteria responsible for mild to life - threatening gastroenteritis in people, and some of these bacteria may be resistant to antibiotics.

With the move to India, Colleen left the lab bench so that she could coordinate the development of facilities at inStem; this included new laboratory space and an animal facility housing mice, rats, fish, and frogs.

To answer this question, Ding decided to use a cousin of the Flock house virus — Nodamura virus — that is lethal to young mice.

Professor Bischofberger and co-investigators Stefanie Heigele, PhD, and Leoni Bolz tested two groups of mice, which were housed either without (sedentary) or with running wheels (voluntarily running) using a novel object recognition (NOR) task to assess learning and long - term memory.

Sitting on Cullen's lab bench is a plastic box that houses a pair of mice.

EVERY few years, a plague of European house mice infests one of Australia's grain regions.

House mice began to associate with humans when the Natufian people started settling in the eastern Mediterranean, before the advent of farming

Similar effects have even been claimed for house mice, but it's been unclear how widespread the benefits of friendship are to nonprimates.

House shrews (Suncus murinus) are small mouse - like mammals that are widely distributed in southern parts of Asia, the islands of the western Indian Ocean, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa.

Treating mice with CK2 - ASO or housing them at 17 degrees C (62.6 degrees F) each prevented more than 25 percent of this weight gain.

«It's remarkable, using a lowly house mouse to monitor a major milestone in human history,» says Melinda Zeder, curator of Old World archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with the study.

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.

After exposing both types of mice to endotoxin for two weeks, they tested their sensitivity to house dust mites, a common cause of allergies in both mice and humans.