Sentences with phrase «vole species»

Functional variation in vasopressin 1a receptor gene structure within and between vole species predicts behavior Elizabeth Hammock, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory University, Atlanta, Georga, USA

Also present were fossils of a water vole Mimomys, which was superseded by another vole species called Arvicola around 500,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

Mink are an introduced and highly predatory species which represents the main threat to water voles and other native wildlife where the habitat is suitable.

By injecting the gene for the vasopressin receptor into the ventral pallidum of promiscuous voles, researchers were able to make the cells in that area produce levels of the receptor comparable to those of monogamous species.

The research focused on two related species of vole: prairie voles, which are about as close as mammals get to being monogamous, and meadow voles, which express little interest in each other after copulation.

In the study, when Web visitors were offered the opportunity to view photos of either endangered Nepalese gharials or common voles online, they chose rare species most often.

Excavation revealed a deep sequence of deposits containing the elephant remains, along with numerous flint tools and a range of other species such as; wild aurochs, extinct forms of rhinoceros and lion, Barbary macaque, beaver, rabbit, various forms of vole and shrew, and a diverse assemblage of snails.

Bachelor prairie voles can't tell females of their species apart.

This pattern is true for two species of vole, the monogamous prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) and its promiscuous cousin, the meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus).

Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because this species is one of the few to mate for life.

Unlike 97 percent of species, prairie voles are faithfully monogamous.

Listing Proposal: California golden trout, Lake Sammamish kokanee salmon, black - footed albatross, cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, western gull - billed tern, dusky tree vole, Alabama pearlshell, Choctaw bean, coquí llanero, fuzzy pigtoe, Mohave ground squirrel, Mojave fringe - toed lizard, narrow pigtoe, Oklahoma grass pink, Ozark chinquapin, round ebonyshell, San Bernardino springsnail, southern kidneyshell, southern sandshell, tapered pigtoe, Tehachapi slender salamander, Three Forks springsnail, 23 species from Oahu.

The role of αCaMKII autophosphorylation in the establishment of alcohol addiction Alanna Easton, King's College, UK Novel age - dependent learning deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for translational research Karienn Montgomery, University of Florida, USA Microsatellite regions upstream of the vole Avpr1a gene contribute to both individual and species differences in receptor expression Zoe Donaldson, Columbia University, USA Per Genes and Addiction Stephanie Perreau - Lenz, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany

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The increasing rate of extinctions, the rising number of species suffering population declines in the order of 90 per cent (not just tigers, but sparrows and voles, too), the destruction of rainforests, the pollution of the oceans — the evidence is plain to see.

Food web at risk due to loss of snow cover — key prey species such as lemmings and voles overwinter in snow tunnels.

If they are genetically deprived of oxytocin, monogamous, maternal, loving prairie voles (a species of rodent) turn into another subspecies — the heartless, promiscuous, pup abusing montane voles.