Those adaptations enable the rodent to rely on the evergreen saltbush plants for sustenance throughout the year. |
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But it takes about four minutes for a rat to die of asphyxiation, whereas a snake can constrict a rodent to death in just one. |
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The barn owl's decline in many areas has caused much concern in recent years because of the bird's role in reducing rodent populations. |
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It could be a marsupial rat or mole or something opossumlike, or a rodent, insectivore, or even a primate akin to a tarsier or loris. |
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Modem rodent and lagomorph skulls were mainly from the Condon Museum, University of Oregon. |
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If rodent damage is found, clean and repair or replace damaged wiring, relays, and other electrical equipment. |
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Treatment is only supportive, and the best prevention is to minimize contact with rodent excreta. |
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Such cross-resistance appears to be a general feature of resistant rodent populations. |
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Most of what I found were unidentifiable broken sections of long bones, but I did find a bird femur and a nice rodent astragalus. |
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I then reweighed the seeds to determine the mass of seeds that had been consumed by each rodent. |
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A nearby wolf pounced on the bird first and the rodent scuttled to freedom. |
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A typical rodent model of chronic pain involves tying a temporary ligature around the sciatic nerve. |
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I don't know if the rodent returned as I was so tired by this stage that I went out like a light. |
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With the zoo's high densities of rodents, a relatively high density of rodent predators could be achieved. |
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The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent that nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes. |
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Visually inspect the wiring for signs of rodent damage, wear, cracks, or corrosion. |
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Inevitably, though, the squeals and pitter-patter of the burgeoning rodent families increased, and I gave in. |
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The Field Mouse is a small rodent, found in long rolling plains or alternately old houses and any place in between. |
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The council has been totally ineffective at reducing rodent numbers despite my phone calls and emails. |
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The nutritional requirements for laboratory rodent species have been worked out and a variety of commercial pelleted diets are available. |
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The source of the infection appears to involve exposure to the urine or feces of common house mice or rodent pets. |
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In truth, owls are magnificent birds, hunters of the dark that keep dangerous rodent populations well in check. |
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With the grace of a snake and the speed of a cheetah, it snatches the rodent in its teeth and yanks it into the burrow. |
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We here examine the evolutionary pattern of Catsper1 from nine species of the rodent subfamily Murinae of family Muridae. |
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Unlike a rodent, an organoid can't model behavior or complex interactions with other organs, for example. |
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Sandflies are found around human habitations and breed in specific organic wastes such as feces, manure, rodent burrows, and leaf litter. |
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All but the most ardent rodent fanciers would consider this a highly unpleasant ordeal. |
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Alligator-like caimans doze while capybaras, the world's largest rodent species, munch on grasses along the riverbank. |
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You notice that, although it's a fine article, it fails to mention the world's largest living rodent, the capybara. |
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At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. |
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A technician discovered the dead rodent and believes it had squirmed into the body of the PC to keep warm. |
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They keep down the rodent population in Egypt's economically important grain fields along the Nile. |
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They hold 150 pounds of rolled oats, and the snap-lock lids guard against rodent contamination. |
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One patient cleaned rodent droppings from her home within two weeks of her illness. |
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The officers found numerous rat droppings and structural damage caused by rodent activity. |
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We learned to tell how big a rodent she had spotted by the posture she adopted, how close to the ground she slunk or how fast she moved. |
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Each night he set mousetraps to obtain specimens from the small rodent population. |
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Most of us find them unattractive, though there are thousands of rodent fanciers who dote on their well-groomed rat-pets. |
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The hot summer of 2003 has led to more northern sightings of Britain's smallest rodent. |
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The chemical has been shown to increase the tumorigenicity of cancer cells in rodent models. |
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They were fed 50 ml of commercial birdseed and two commercial rodent chow blocks once a week. |
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The tagged rodent was released into the wild to allow researchers to investigate how the little furry pests behave on small islands. |
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Rodenticides control rats, mice, gophers, and other rodent pests of human habitation and agriculture. |
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They have also been used for biological control, introduced into various islands with the idea that they would control outbreaks of rodent pests. |
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Pictured next on the screen was a large rodent making its way toward a hungry-looking tomcat. |
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Moreover, a rodent capture still leaves behind the messy job of killing the creature and burying the evidence. |
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In part, the large mesocarp of ripe fruits can be viewed as a necessary cost to the plant to facilitate caching behavior by the rodent. |
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And far from being a nasty raptor, the barn owl is ecologically important for natural rodent control. |
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It was early and the forest was quiet, and I was looking for an agouti, a cat-sized rodent and subject of Enrique Ortiz's recent research. |
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Additionally, the cotton rat and rice rat are the rodent vectors in the southeastern United States for the Black Creek Canal and Bayou viruses, respectively. |
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In the distance, a barn owl quartered a field looking for a rodent supper. |
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The ferret's survival has forever been entwined with that of the prairie dog, a foot-tall rodent that makes up about 90 percent of the predator's diet. |
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Needless to say, I made a hasty retreat, kicking aside the wedge propping my kitchen door open so it slammed shut, keeping the rodent hopefully contained in one room. |
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In one of them, Dallman and her colleagues simulated chronic stress by increasing the brain concentration of a rodent version of the glucocorticoid called cortisol. |
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Humans can be infected by inhaling tiny droplets of virus-laden rodent excreta, eating contaminated food or simply by absorption through the skin. |
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As discussed in the introduction, the majority of studies aimed at transforming normal diploid cells in culture were carried out using freshly explanted diploid rodent cells. |
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The acouchi is a small-sized rodent with a round body and long, thin legs. |
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Viewing the use of insensitive in vitro assays used to understand the equivalent insensitive rodent bioassays can be likened to the blind leading the blind. |
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Again, unconscious of the life-cycle of its food-plant, the large rodent called the agouti, in tropical America, buries seeds such as those of the brazil nut. |
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If rodent damage is found, clean and repair or replace damaged wiring, relays, and other components and seal over openings that allowed rodent entry. |
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This slow-moving creature is Canada's largest rodent next to the beaver. |
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She paints the current rodent situation as more than a foul inconvenience, and one that is a particular blight on poorer areas. |
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Bark stripping is normally the telltale sign of this little rodent. |
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This web-footed rodent living in the bayous and backwoods of Louisiana has become a kind of unofficial state animal, an anointed nuisance with resident status. |
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Wood mice are small rodents common in mixed forest and scrublands at our study area, where virtually no other terrestrial rodent species is present. |
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The living rodent with the most archaic characters, most like the common ancestor of the Rodentia, is the sewellel or mountain beaver of the northwestern United States. |
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Although we work on diverse hair cell epithelia, our principal model preparation has been the rodent utricular epithelium, which senses linear head movements. |
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Another compound in the viper's venom acts as a diuretic, causing the rodent to urinate involuntarily as it runs, leaving a scented trail that the snake can follow. |
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This large rodent makes lots of noise while walking through the dry leaves of the forest or while chewing on the hard shells of the cohune nut, one of its favorite foods. |
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The salt marsh harvest mouse is a small nocturnal rodent that makes its home and all of its meals out of pickleweed, a native plant growing in the salt marshes. |
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Elevating plasma cortisol levels, either by exogenous administration or stress, facilitates the acquisition of stimulant administration in preclinical rodent models. |
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Others with a more monetary bent could base their entire philanthropic nature on this tale of a robbing rodent who swipes from the miserly and scats on the insolvent. |
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The disease repeatedly wiped out the rodent carriers so that the fleas died out until a new outbreak from Central Asia repeated the process. |
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However, those with a fear of mice and rats celebrated the unseasonably warm weather as the usual peak in rodent infestations never took place. |
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The tuco-tuco is a vegetarian rodent very similar in appearance and behaviour to the ground squirrel. |
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Overexpression of mouse D-type cyclins accelerates G1 phase in rodent fibroblasts. |
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The rodent then practices coprophagy, eating its own fecal pellets, so the nutrients can be absorbed by the gut. |
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The rodent fossil record dates back to the Paleocene on the supercontinent of Laurasia. |
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The decision was taken to send in a rodent control team to protect colonies of Manx shearwaters on Rum. |
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Furthermore, rodent bioassays are costly, tend to use a high number of animals, and have uncertain predictive value for human risk. |
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They range in size from the tiny, third-of-an-ounce pygmy rice rat to the world's largest rodent, the 140-pound capybara. |
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The rodent repellant properties of Narcissus alkaloids have been utilised in horticulture to protect more vulnerable bulbs. |
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It most likely evolved from a terrestrial African rodent virus between 68,000 and 16,000 years ago. |
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Researchers have access to different rodent models of systemic and ocular diseases. |
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In the Tobacco Road section, students meet Igna-Ray-Mouse, a misinformed rodent who has decided to smoke. |
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The flea is parasitic on house and field rats, and seeks out other prey when its rodent hosts die. |
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Flea, rodent, and plague ecology at Chuchupate Camp ground, Ventura County, California. |
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They noticed that rodent hair was easily transplantable as their dermal papillae aggregate or form clumps in the tissue culture. |
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The Gliridae are one of the oldest extant rodent families, with a fossil record dating back to the early Eocene. |
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While a common rat has an average three-year life span, naked mole rat, a subterranean rodent native to East Africa, can live for 10 to 30 year. |
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An endemic sigmodontine rodent, Noronhomys vespuccii, mentioned by Amerigo Vespucci, is now extinct. |
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Encouraging natural predators to control rodent population is a natural form of pest control, along with excluding food sources for rodents. |
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Domestic and feral cats are able to control rodents effectively, provided the rodent population is not too large. |
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Some rodent species are serious agricultural pests, eating large quantities of food stored by humans. |
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Eurasian beavers are one of the largest living species of rodents and are the largest rodent native to Eurasia. |
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Typically, male stoats prey on rabbits more frequently than females do, which depend to a greater extent on smaller rodent species. |
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Reducing animal harborage, such as keeping wood piles away from the house, can prevent a tick host, like a rodent, from being close to your home. |
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Eliminating harborages and sources of food and water can drastically reduce rodent populations. |
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Melatonin protects against streptozocin, but not interleukin-1B-induced damage of rodent pancreatic B-cells. |
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Sulforaphane induces mammalian detoxification enzyme activity and inhibits early tumor growth in rodent models. |
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Since its arrival, sylvatic plague has readily adapted to and pro foundly influenced wild American rodent populations. |
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The house mouse is the most common rodent reported in residential settings. |
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Karyology, systematics, and chromosomal evolution in the rodent genus, Sigmodon. |
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Opposite Winston there sat a man with a chinless, toothy face exactly like that of some large, harmless rodent. |
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This new rodent highlights the large amount of unknown biodiversity in this Wallacean region and the importance of its conservation. |
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Pest control firms use a combination of rodent glue pads or rat traps to deal with the menace. |
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Several rodent species have flexible mating systems that can vary between monogamy, polygyny and promiscuity. |
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At least three now extinct native rodent species were present up until the discovery of the islands by Europeans. |
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The living rodent families based on the study done by Fabre et al. |
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The report also identified several other potential pet species, including sugar gliders and native rodent species other than Mitchell's hopping mouse. |
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Snakes, such as rat snakes, king snakes, pine snakes, black racers, and coach whips, eat numerous rodents and are important in controlling rodent populations. |
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Further specificity analysis reveals a subset of functional antibody clones capable of recognizing the rodent ortholog of the target, enabling in vivo pharmacology studies. |
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These tumors are readily induced by many genotoxic carcinogens, but they may also be induced by virtually any nongenotoxic goitrogen in these rodent species. |
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Nowadays, the house mouse is the most commonly used laboratory rodent, and in 1979 it was estimated that fifty million were used annually worldwide. |
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The skins and underfur of rodent prey are used to line the nest chamber. |
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There were also three black-tailed prairie dogs, several types of tortoise, five ornate horned frogs, an iguana, a gecko and a degu, a small rodent endemic to central Chile. |
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With the assistance of several experts, we were able to identify the rodent the Galapagos Mockingbird was preying on as the invasive house mouse, Mus musculus. |
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Since 76 percent of rodent genera contain only one species, much phylogenetic diversity could be lost with a comparatively small number of extinctions. |
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Further testing on tissue samples from the three patients confirmed a new type of arenavirus, a family of mainly rodent viruses that occasionally affect humans. |
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In most rodent species, such as brown rats and house mice, ovulation occurs on a regular cycle while in others, such as voles, it is induced by mating. |
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Many rodent species, particularly those that are diurnal and social, have a wide range of alarm calls that are emitted when they perceive threats. |
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The field vole is a typical herbivorous rodent and feeds on grasses, herbs, root tubers, moss, and other vegetation, and gnaws on bark during the winter. |
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It is, however, different from the North American porcupine, which is a rodent but is a member of the family of Erethizontidae, which is not represented in South America. |
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We then evaluated the relevance of a rodent model for primates by comparing the level of clearance of unconjugated BPA from serum in the mouse compared with the rhesus monkey. |
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