Sentences with phrase «wild mice populations»

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.

Not exact matches

Gough Island might have been largely uninhabited by humans, but 50 years later, residents of nearby islands raised questions about the unusually vicious mice that now roam the island (50 per cent heavier than wild mice anywhere in the world) and devastate the bird population.

He was part of a team that found that, in mice with mitochondria from both lab and distantly related wild populations, one mitochondrial lineage tended to dominate.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

The present findings are derived from studies using CD4KO mice and thus, raise the question as to whether the CD4 + T cell - independent immune mechanisms in CD4 KO mice differ from those involved in corneal allograft rejection in wild - type mice whose CD4 + T cells population have been depleted with monoclonal antibodies.

Their content is optimized for genetic mapping in the Collaborative Cross and Diveristy Outbred populations; for discriminating haplotypes from common laboratory strains and substrains; and for evaluating the ancestry of wild - caught mice.

Dynamics of a tularemia outbreak in a closely monitored free - roaming population of wild house mice

In this study, we monitored the partner preference behaviour of female and male wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) from populations.