Sentence examples for host feathers from inspiring English sources

In contrast, all three lice species showed similar shifts in the enrichments in carbon and nitrogen signatures relative to those from host feathers, indicating their preferences on feathers remains and other debris.

Host feathers were washed in a 0.25 M sodium hydroxide solution, rinsed thoroughly in distilled water to remove any surface contamination, dried in an oven at 60°C to constant mass, and then grounded to powder using a SPEX 6750 Freezer/Mill.

Similarly, there were significant differences between values of host blood and all other tissue types (All P<0.001), however significance did not hold in the case of host feathers which showed similar carbon values to lice except for the louse S. peusi (D = 0.136, P<0.001).

Geographic location was treated as a random term with the type of tissue (H. abnormis, A. echinatum, S. peusi, X. gratiosa, host blood and host feather) as a fixed factor.

This Won't Be Pretty Long - a newly bleached dead coral hosts feather worms that will probably be smothered as brown algae covers the surface.

The common tern hosts feather lice, which are quite different from those found in Arctic terns, despite the close relationship of the two birds.

This swift is host to feather mites including Eustathia cultrifera, Chauliacia canarisi and C. securigera.

Overall, δ15N signatures of all four ectoparasites were greater than those of the host blood or feathers (All P<0.001).

We analyzed the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signatures of host blood and feathers as well as of whole individuals for each ectoparasite species to investigate geographic variation and trophic relationships of ectoparasites in relation to their hosts.

To deal with this unbalanced design, we tested for differences in stable isotopic signatures among ectoparasite species and host tissues (blood and feathers) by applying a linear mixed model (LMM) using the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimation method.

Last Friday, the group-stage draw ruffled feathers: the hosts will have the tricky task of defeating Croatia, Mexico and Cameroon initially.