If you move up to 10- to 15-year-olds, users rival the populations of countries – led by Habbo (135 million), Neopets (54 million), Star Dolls (34 million) and Club Penguin (28 million).
These findings suggest that the LES phages may play an important role in host invasions and more generally show that the carriage of multiple phages may itself be beneficial by hindering the spread of resistance in rival bacterial populations.
These are hard to resist, but all the more so in areas where fresh produce is scarce, supermarkets may not exist, TV may be the predominant source of information and fast-food restaurants may rival the population of mailboxes.
The figure of 4.2 million individuals with security clearances "vastly outstrips previous estimates and nearly rivals the population of metropolitan Washington," as the Washington Post noted.
Competing interests have long debated how to manage the Klamath, a river whose salmon populations once rivaled any in the world.
According to the Christian aid agency Tearfund, the conflict has been framed as Christian v Muslim – respectively 80%and15%5% of the population – but rival militias are based more on ethnic identity than religion, and control of CAR's mineral wealth underlies the struggle.
With their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849.
Instead, these results raise an interesting possibility that male-derived CHCs retained on the female cuticle may provide information about the presence and density of rival males within the population and thus offer males a way to indirectly assess sperm competition risk and intensity.
India's population rivals China's in size, but has a far younger complexion.
The NYU Muslim population rivals that of the other universities, and its Islamic center, which sponsors a Muslim Students Association and Muslim Law Students Association, is popular with young Muslims throughout the city.
