The word 'mammalian' is an acceptable and correct word to use in written English.
It is an adjective that describes animals that belong to the mammal class, such as monkeys, horses, and humans. Example sentence: Whales are one of the most intelligent mammalian species.
Andrewsarchus – a big, prehistoric mammalian carnivore that resembled the villainous Gmork from The Neverending Story – is not a household name despite its apparent ferocity, and the shovel-tusked elephants and bear dogs of the age of mammals have not inspired a "Miocene Park" film franchise.
[ORIGIN 2013: diminutive form of OLINGO, a South American mammal resembling the kinkajou.] The discovery of the olinguito was announced by the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in August: it represented the first identification of a new species of mammalian carnivore in the western hemisphere in 35 years.
With these molecules in hand, the Devgen and Janssen groups will go on to try them out in mammalian cells, to confirm that what is good for the worm also works in man.A similar approach is being tested by Pharmacia & Upjohn (P&U), another large drug company.
Of those, only one both blocks egg-laying and causes amyloid protein to build up in mammalian cells.
Perhaps being gaudy in a part of the spectrum that mammals cannot see enables male birds to show off to females while remaining inconspicuous to mammalian predators.
Dr Wang took the enzyme that normally attaches one of the 20 natural amino acids to his tRNA in bacteria, and mutated it in about a billion ways in yeast cells in the hope that one of the mutants would fit the mammalian bill perfectly which, indeed, one of them did.Having assembled and tested the machinery, he then wanted to do something useful with it.
Yet some scientists argue that there are regions of their brains that make possible some of the same functions as the mammalian neocortex.
Those other mammalian marine predators, the dolphins, use sound to "see" in places where little light penetrates.
Dr Kawaoka's purpose was to study how the mammalian-transmission mutations worked.
Mr Low concludes that, whereas a cortex is sufficient for mammalian-like sleep, it is not necessary.
Susan Lindquist, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute, was the first person to find a non-mammalian prion (in yeast).
