Examples of polyploid plants and animals are the potato (Solanum tuberosum), the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), and the plains viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae; also called red vizcacha rat).
Los Angelenos with BB guns should have no problem sourcing these — they're the rustling in the bougainvillea canopy — but others might need to substitute plain old "wild rats".
Popular song gained an indelible image in 1935, when Édith Piaf, France's fabled "Little Sparrow," first stood onstage in a plain black dress, a rat's nest of dark hair topping her weary eyes.
(p.adj) denotes adjusted p-value for hypoxia differential expression, (i) denotes probe intensity, Fold denotes fold change, where columns with italics title refer to Spalax and columns with plain titles refer to rat.
In one study [ 3], there was a statistically significant decrease in inflammation over 1 month in rats fed yogurt containing Lactobacillus GG (LGG) compared with rats fed plain yogurt or milk (P <.05).
If rats drink plain tap water before being made ill, they will show little aversion to tap water (since there is no novelty here).
When Councilman Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn, announced on Monday that he was going to introduce legislation that would make feeding pigeons an offense punishable by a fine, he made plain his feelings about "rats with wings," a phrase used by a parks commissioner, Thomas P. F. Hoving, in the 1960s and popularized by Woody Allen in his 1980 film "Stardust Memories".
All rats in Cohort 1 had previously been trained on place discriminations in a curtained water tank that involved the rats distinguishing plain walls of differing lengths or walls with different patterns.
Rats were 10 months (Cohort 1), 11 months (Cohort 2), and 6 months (Cohort 3) old at the start of the study, having previously been trained on geometric discriminations in a curtained water tank that involved the rats distinguishing plain walls of differing lengths.
Naked mole rats are just plain weird.
