Sentences with phrase «small body size due»

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

Reducing the expression of GBP1 and GBP2 (GBPs) specifically in the fat body results in smaller body size due to reduced growth rate.

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Due to its less weight, it even works as a small movable couch because its size is of the total body that helps the user to accommodate him all over on it.

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.

Another powerful study published in 2003 Environmental Health Perspectives evaluated the levels of pesticide metabolites in the urine of two groups of children and found that children eating organic fruits and vegetables, consuming organic milk and drinking organic juices had levels of pesticide metabolites six to nine times lower than children eating conventionally grown food.17 Bear in mind, pesticides are up to ten times more toxic to children than adults, due to their smaller body size and developing organ systems, so it is especially important to minimize their exposure whenever possible during the growing years.18

Due to their small size, infants ingest larger amounts of BPA per body weight than older children and adults and have a highly restricted diet.

This problem commonly occurs to dwarf hamsters or baby hamsters due to their small body size.

Even with the enticement of last night's table scraps, neither my 35 pound Australian cattle dog nor my 20 pound Scottie — who due to some weird act of nature has the same sized head and teeth but a smaller body than the cattle dog — could shove her way through past her chest.

Body size in dogs, for example, can range from 3 to 300 pounds, and is thought to be due to a small variation in a single gene (the IGF - 1 gene).

It's expected the FaceID - equipped 2018 iPad will have a screen size similar to the 10.5 - inch iPad Pro, although the body may be smaller due to the minimal bezels.