Sentence examples for lower mammals from inspiring English sources

Also amazing, to me, is the discovery of Dr Jim Pfaus of Concordia University in Canada of the role played by female sexual pleasure and desire in mate selection (from experiments in lower mammals).

His early studies of the behaviour of invertebrates soon gave way to work with the lower mammals, and his first book, The Dancing Mouse (1907), helped establish the use of mice and rats as standard laboratory subjects in psychological testing.

In many lower mammals, with laterally directed eyes and therefore limited binocular vision, the degree of decussation is much greater, so that in the rat, for example, practically all of the optic nerve fibres pass to the opposite side of the brain.

This area is more or less oval in reptiles and lower mammals; distinctly elongated in higher mammals and birds, it is called the primitive streak, a thickened and slightly depressed part of the epiblast that is thickest at the anterior end, called the Hensen's node.

Finally, restoring circadian light/dark cycle might improve immune function through enhanced melatonin production, in the context of reduced energy availability associated with critical illness, as is currently observed in lower mammals during the winter [95].

To vampires, it seems, humans are "lower" mammals, too.

To investigate whether analogous scMRI networks are present in lower mammal species amenable to genetic and experimental manipulation such as the laboratory mouse, we employed high resolution morphoanatomical MRI in a large cohort of genetically-homogeneous wild-type mice (C57Bl6/J) and mapped scMRI networks using a seed-based approach.

A study from February 2005 to March 2006 registered 40% lower mammal abundance along the Via Maxus compared to a control area in intact forest distant from roads [31].

Memory experiments demonstrated persistent activity in several structures in the lower mammal, primate, and human brains including the hippocampus [1], [2], prefrontal [3], visual [4] and oculomotor cortex [5], basal ganglia [6], etc. Persistent dynamics is believed to emerge as attractor dynamics (see also [7] [13]).

With respect to the KCNJ18 gene (Kir2.6), we did not found this gene in either the genome of Felis catus or the Mus musculus C2C12 cell line; thus, we hypothesize that it might also be missing in the other lower mammal species.

A layer of endoderm is formed adjoining the cavity of the blastocyst, and an amniotic cavity develops, enclosing the embryo; in lower placental mammals, the allantois also develops.