The phrase "animals of interest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as research, conservation, or discussions about specific species that are being studied or monitored.
Example: "In our study, we focused on the animals of interest, which included endangered species and their habitats."
Alternatives: "target species" or "species of concern".
The assumption that all animals are related may create biases especially when animals of interest have both phenotypes and genotypes.
In practical implementations of marker-assisted selection economic and logistic restrictions frequently lead to incomplete genotypic data for the animals of interest.
Data might be gathered passively, by using a receiver to listen for animal-produced sounds, or actively, by emitting sound and detecting its reflection off animals of interest.
The animals of interest were defined as the youngest progeny-tested bulls with no second crop daughters, hereafter called young sires (YS).
The mice were challenged with P. chabaudi or P.berghei parasites and selected, as animals of interest, those that survived to the infection or displayed an abnormal red blood cell count.
However, one caveat of most selection-based approaches in C. elegans is that some form of negative selection is required to select against animals carrying the positive selection marker in the form of extra-chromosomal arrays (Mello et al. 1991), increasing the amount of time required to identify transgenic animals of interest.
After 5 min, at time 30 min, blood is collected, animals are euthanized and tissues of interest are harvested, weighed, and subjected to gamma counting.
If several moving foreground objects are detected, the one with the largest motion component is considered to be the animal of interest and all other objects are rejected.
Required numbers were chosen somewhat arbitrarily by our group based on laboratory constraints, feasibility, and the animal of interest.
