Sentences with phrase «small number of animals»

This particular study was so poorly designed — the highly sensitized line, the inexcusably small number of animals — that you didn't even have to look at the ridiculous statements from the lead author (like «GMOs are a pesticide sponge») to see that it was biased.

Chronic or recurrent otitis is the only complaint in a small number of animals.

For the small number of animals who are never ready for adoption, the Sanctuary is their home for life.

A permanent refuge can only save a small number of animals, while an adoption program can save thousands.

The results of this preliminary study on a small number of animals naturally infected, indicate that false seronegativity seems easy to occur in non-endemic areas, which represents the major parts of italian and european territories.

This is a small number of our animals!

As a result, we always have a group of special animals that need a level of individual care that is difficult to provide in a shelter environment, or the very small number of animals that have been in the shelter for an extended period of time that would benefit from a period of home care.

Producing offspring is not the only purpose of online zoo dating, by carefully managing the breeding of the small number of animals in zoo programs, world zoos aim to retain 90 % of the genetic diversity of a species found in the wild over a 100 years.

However, when the humans were strangers, the dogs stuck around 53 % of the time and wolves 28 % — a difference too small to be statistically significant considering the small number of animals involved.

The ministry maintains that the small number of animals involved in the commercial trade means they can be used to test the reliability of any system introduced later for pets.

And finally, once vaccinations are used, it is much harder for a country to show that it's disease free; the virus could be lurking in a small number of animals.

Importers such as Tepedelen also supply small numbers of animals to zoos and scientists.

Again, be optimistic but realistic — there is no reason a friendly adult animal with no particular health or behavior problems should take more than a week or so to find an adopter at most shelters, while a much smaller number of animals with serious challenges may stay for weeks or months.

Research should be limited to the smallest number of animals of the most suitable species, and the animals should be maintained in sanitary conditions and cared for in a humane manner in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act, the Health Research Extension Act, and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

If you know of, or think you know of a situation where a single animal or a smaller number of animals are being abused or neglected, please contact your local law enforcement and animal control authorities or local animal rescue groups.

Adams continues, «HB538 does not in any way impede the activities of those who are breeding small numbers of animals to improve the breed or to show or to hunt.

Cornell University Hospital for Animals Companion Animal Nutrition Service The Cornell University Hospital for Animals is among a small number of animal hospitals across the nation that offers comprehensive nutrition services provided by boarded specialists in the area of veterinary nutrition for hospital and clinic patients, as well as nutrition consultations for animal owners across the country.

The Cornell University Hospital for Animals is among a small number of animal hospitals across the nation that offers comprehensive nutrition services provided by boarded specialists in the area of veterinary nutrition for hospital and clinic patients, as well as nutrition consultations for animal owners across the country.

Not exact matches

Let's face it: Noah's Ark is totally impossible — the ship is way too big to be made of wood but WAY too small for the number of animals taken.

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.

It should be noted that where few animals are used, small variations in the numbers of animals can lead to large percentile differences.

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a...

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

«We expected to find that the majority of the animals would have normal airways, with only a small number actually affected with the disease, but that was not the case.»

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

Again and again, animals of various species domesticated at different times in different parts of the world develop the same domestication syndrome characteristics: more extensive breeding periods; smaller brains, hearts and teeth; small or floppy ears; spotted coats; curly hair and tails; variable numbers of vertebrae in the spine; and juvenile faces with shorter snouts.

Critics have long argued that transplanting animal tissue into even a small number of immune - suppressed patients could allow obscure pathogens to jump from animals to humans.

The brightly colored animals came to scientific attention only because they were living as pets in small riverbank settlements — suggesting that the number of undiscovered species in the Amazon basin is even greater than scientists suspect.

The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

As the microbes metabolize food, they produce an astonishing number of small molecules, chemicals and hormones that circulate in a host and can influence health in an animal.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

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.

In Germany, there are approximately 1 million Fleckvieh dairy cows: «Their genomes can be traced back to a small number of key ancestors,» explains Prof. Ruedi Fries, Chair of Animal Breeding at TUM.

This domino effect is a particular threat to animal species that only interact with a small number of plant species, since they are more sensitive to climate change than generalists.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

When the overall number of animal species is lower, this favors smaller species with a lower body mass.

In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.

Prehistorians say the find is exceptional not just because of the number and variety of animal images, but for the sheer size of its four main halls and smaller interconnecting galleries, and the care the cavers took to leave the floor undisturbed.

The journal retracted the paper a year later, stating that «the results presented (while not incorrect) are inconclusive» due to the type of lab animal and small number used.

Population data on the animals is incomplete, so their true conservation status is unknown, but their numbers are far smaller than many common marine species of dolphins, whose populations are composed of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

The branch uniting the fungi and animals is well - supported based on a number of molecular phylogenetic datasets, including the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (Wainwright et al., 1993; Bruns et al. 1993), unique and shared sequence insertions in proteins such as elongation factor 1α (Baldauf and Palmer, 1993), entire mitochondrial genomes (Lang et al., 2002), and concatenated protein - coding genes (Steenkamp et al., 2006).

As a result of non-target species possibly being included in past research studies, it has been thought that snow leopards — who lack an abundance of natural prey — consume great numbers of small mammals such as marmots, hares and pika, as well as wild ungulates, which are larger hooved animals such as ibex.

(A) The germline of a wild type adult hermaphrodite animal with small lipid containing structures in oocytes and an increase in their number and size during oogenesis.

Space for housing limited numbers of small animal species other than mice is also available upon request.

First, the scope of suffering and pain is almost incomprehensible: Each year hundreds of millions of animals big and small suffer physical and emotional pain, and the numbers just keep rising.

In a series of electrophysiological studies, Zoghbi's team further found that neurons from animals with depleted MECP2 levels have reduced electrical activity due to a smaller number of excitatory synapses, whereas cells from animals carrying an extra copy of the gene have increased electrical activity because of an increase in synapse number.

This will be more readily accomplished by the millions of meat eaters opting for grass - fed animal foods than by the smaller numbers of vegetarians boycotting meat.

Altered sperm, a change in testicular color, a dramatic increase in the number of miscarriages, and fewer and smaller babies born to animals have scientists and doctors concerned about the presence of GE foods in most American's diets.

Blueberries are among a small number of foods that contain measurable amounts of oxalic acid, a naturally - occurring substances found in plants, animals, and human beings.