However, the animals we studied, although subject to recent social manipulation, were tested in isolation.
All the animals we studied were slaughtered after a mandatory clinical ante-mortem examination, as required by European Union legislation.
In addition, to assess the persistence and relapse of cocaine-seeking behavior in NR1DATCre animals, we studied the extinction and reinstatement of the CPP response.
To examine the effect of fudoh on the virulence of S. aureus in animals, we studied the virulence of the Newman strain transformed with the fudoh gene in a murine model of systemic infection.
Because our aim was to predict genotyped animals, we studied accuracies of prediction using GBLUP.
To determine whether mitochondrial performance might be impaired in rapamycin-treated animals, we studied treadmill endurance in a second cohort of animals.
With the limited number of animals we studied, we cannot conclude that all bonobos and gorillas have only 2 DAZ genes because our sampling could be biased.
Consistent with our prior results, trientine treatment also improved diabetes-mediated cardiac damage in Zucker diabetic rats, an animal model of T2DM, whose metabolic disturbances were less severe than those in the animals we studied here [ 35].
The animal species we study are bear, beaver, fisher, fox, lynx, marten, mink, muskrat, otter, wolf and wolverine.
"Despite the challenges mountain lions in this area face, the animals we've studied appear to be reproducing successfully," Jeff Sikich, a biologist with Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, said in a statement about the kittens.
