Jain depictions of Ganesha show his vahana variously as a mouse, elephant, tortoise, ram, or peacock.
Microsatellites were especially enriched in mouse, elephant, and dog, whereas sequences from armadillo, frog, and fugu were particularly depleted in microsatellites in comparison with the human genome.
Now, a new genetic study is shedding light on how this important organ evolved--and how it became fine-tuned to meet the specific reproductive needs of mice, elephants, and humans.
An Vrombaut's Mouse and Elephant want to play together, but the size discrepancy is a problem.
Buy other titles by Adrienne Geoghegan at BOL There's another take on friendship in Mouse And Elephant (Hodder, £4.99).
At a certain point, you can't treat the electorate like visitors at a theme park who can pretend that as long as the giant mouse (or elephant) is smiling at them everything will be all right.
My sister and I would demand one each time we went for a long walk – we'd give him a group of characters (a mouse, an elephant and a girl call Alice) and he'd create an incredible world for them to inhabit.
For adult mammals ranging in size and proportion from mouse to elephant, the data describe an interdependent set of functions consisting of metabolism (measured as metabolic rate), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), effective renal plasma flow, excretion of nitrogenous waste products, cardiac output, and pulmonary function-related variables.
The findings were reported in the press such as The Scotsman, "Mouse to elephant in 24m generations," January 31 , 2012(http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/environment/mouse_to_elephant_in_24m_generations_1_2086982).
According to Kleiber's law (also known as the mouse to elephant curve) as animals get bigger, their metabolism slows down.
The p.Q485H mutation affects an amino acid that is located in the transmembrane domain 1 (TMD1) of the ABCC8/SUR1 core; and that is highly conserved across species (Rhesus, Mouse, Dog, Rabbit, Elephant, Opossum, Platypus, Chicken, Lizard, Stickleback, X_Tropicalis, Tetraodon) according to the UCSC (NCBI/hg18) comparative genomics alignment pipeline (http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/).
