The similar patterns of findings in AIV-lesioned birds and Area X-lesioned birds is consistent with the possibility that the AIV, or some components of it, may interact with the AFP, perhaps by transmitting to it a signal important for its function.
Otherwise, the age and low abundance of class 2 transposons in birds are consistent with the paucity in repetitive sequences characteristic of bird genomes.
This chapter presents an experiment that involves observing the seed selection of foraging birds in the field and performing a chi-square test to determine whether the food choice of these birds is consistent with the hypothesized preference.
Your staying dry is like the cat's pathetic preference for hunting dead birds: completely consistent with your tame spiritual themes, autumn, loss, darkness, etc.
The physiological divergence we have identified between migrant and non-migrant birds is consistent with observations that several species of migrant shorebirds have higher BMR than expected on the basis of body mass [30] [32].
The primary pathologic lesion in birds was consistent with enteritis, but the classic attaching-and-effacing lesions typically associated with eae-positive pathogens were not detected.
In general, expression in fasted compared with fed birds was consistent with the results from Experiment 1. POMC and FABP7 were significantly reduced in fasted chicks at 48 h.
The lower DIO2 and higher DIO3 expression in TM birds is consistent with the decrease in plasma T3 concentration reported in the current study and also with decrease of plasma T3 reported previously in birds and mammals [ 30, 31] and fast growing chickens [ 15].
In addition, the higher site-specific adaptive rates of sw1 and lw opsins in mammals relative to birds is consistent with our preliminary analyses in Zhang et al. (2014) [ 14], where we have found that the sw1 ω-ratio is lower in birds than in mammals (0.16/0.21 respectively).
More specifically, our findings that site 217 of RH1 evolved under positive selection in birds is consistent with findings of positive-selection on this site in other vertebrates [ 26, 37]; however, it has been reported that different amino acids at these sites do not seem to cause spectral shifts in RH1 [ 26].
