Variability in leaf density matters because the dose response curve for the toxicity of Bt pollen is highly non-linear, leading to considerably severer effects on sensitive Lepidoptera species [14, 36].
While these muscle abnormalities are considerably less severe in younger Mbnl1 KO mice, more severe pathological changes (increased fibre size variation, atrophic and splitting fibres, increased numbers of central nuclei indicative of muscle degeneration/regeneration) were observed in Mbnl1−/−; Mbnl2+/− muscles at 10 16 weeks of age (Fig 2A).
The files published by the Guardian do contain a range of types of reports, but they are considerably more severe and significant than Dutton has suggested.
In recent months, India has been touched by the fallout from the global economic crisis, but the impact has been considerably less severe than elsewhere.
Today there are more experiments recorded, but the animals used are mostly mice and fish and the procedures are considerably less severe.
Despite encouraging indications for the future, the government's monthly snapshot of the labor market revealed that last year's collapse was considerably more severe than previously recorded.
Although the punishment Credit Suisse received left the bank largely unscathed, it was considerably more severe than the seven-hundred-and-eighty-million-dollar fine that UBS, its Swiss rival, paid five years ago to settle similar accusations.
Burress would face a mandatory three-and-a-half-year prison sentence if he were convicted of illegal possession of a loaded weapon, but he could end up facing a lesser charge whose penalty is considerably less severe.
In best-selling books by the Dalai Lama, Buddhism can appear to be a ritual-free mental workout, but the form that religion takes for the geshe student cramming the three hundred and twenty-two volumes of the Tibetan Buddhist canon is considerably more severe.
