The majority of hog farmers in North Carolina don't actually own the pigs — they are contract workers for multibillion-dollar food corporations like Chinese-owned Smithfield.
A large majority (65%) of HOGs associated with information transfer and storage was conserved in all nine genomes, whereas only 46%and38%8% of the metabolism and cellular processing and signaling HOGs, respectively, were conserved in all of the genomes.
Our results showed that the overwhelming majority of predicted haloarchaeal proteins were members of HOGs, ranging from a high of 82.8% for Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 to a low of 73.9% for H. utahensis.
Bournemouth's attack proved toothless for the majority of the game, the hosts hogging possession but wasting almost all that superiority.
College baseball is so skewed toward schools in the Southern states, where the better weather and higher-profile programs hog the vast majority of the baseball talent that chooses college.
The vast majority of the time the biggest power hog is the display.
The production of hogs and sheep is also significant.
The walls of the lodge were covered with mounted heads of hogs and deer; hog skulls lined the mantelpiece.
Plus, once in a while enterprising people who love to hunt hogs go to a swamp down South, live-trap a party of hogs, and transport them illegally north to a woods more convenient to the hog hunters' homes.
Hog house, also called pigpen, building for housing swine, particularly one with facilities for housing a number of hogs under one roof.
