What's the difference between carnivorous and dasyurid?
Carnivorous
Definition:
(a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The data show that the structure of inner and outer enamel layers differ between these two carnivore species and that the enamel structure of the cat was most similar to that described in humans.
(3) This is more like an assemblage of bones buried during a single depositional episode, such as a flood, than an assemblage accumulated on a soil over a long period of time by carnivores or other means of death.
(4) We have not seen anything like this in a hundred years, back when the policy was that all large carnivores were to be eradicated.’ Photograph: Kevin Rushby Nina Jensen, chief executive of WWF in Norway, said: “This is mass slaughter.
(5) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.
(6) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(7) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(8) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(9) It has been previously shown that in carnivores the NOT-DTN receives information from primary visual cortical areas in addition to the direct retinal input.
(10) ruminants, equids, carnivores and proboscidates) the thickness of elastic fibres of the nuchal ligament is a specific character, i.e.
(11) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(12) The breakages in carnivores' teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era .
(13) The ability of Trichinella spiralis larvae to survive at subfreezing temperatures encysted in the musculature of wild carnivorous mammals was assessed by evaluating motility and infectivity (to rodents) of trichinae at various intervals after storage in frozen skeletal muscle.
(14) A hitherto-unknown atavistic muscle in the dog initiated a review of the literature on the homologies and nomenclature of the forelimb flexors in carnivores and man.
(15) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(16) Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus.
(17) The probable reservoirs of infection are wild carnivores, infection of man and dog being accidental.
(18) More ancient satellite DNAs were dispersed in carnivors or mammalian genomes.
(19) Between 20 and 22 June 1974, three captive carnivores (two genets, Genetta sp.
(20) Evidence was obtained that the pathogenesis of experimental PDV-infection in harbour seals shares some features with those of canine distemper in terrestrial carnivores.
Dasyurid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This report contains the first description of a salivary gland tumour in a dasyurid marsupial; the same animal also had a mammary carcinoma.
(2) There was only a single duct from the testis in the dasyurids examined.
(3) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
(4) n. is described from the dasyurid marsupial Antechinus stuartii.
(5) Lymphoid neoplasia was common, especially in the smaller dasyurids.
(6) The thermal response of isolated perfused hearts of four dasyurid marsupials was determined and compared with that of two rodents.
(7) A fully pedigreed colony of the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata has provided material for establishing two panels of DNA samples: a broadbased test panel and a two-generation family panel.
(8) In both marsupials the density of crossed and uncrossed terminals is equal, a feature of dasyurid quolls but not of another dasyurid, the Tasmanian devil.
(9) These findings suggest that the functional organisation of the LGd in these dasyurids may differ from that found in other marsupials.
(10) Retinal projections were examined in two small dasyurids, the kowari and the fat-tailed dunnart, following injections of 3H-proline into one eye.
(11) During a histopathologic survey of 240 dasyurid marsupials a high prevalence of infection of Toxoplasma gondii was found in eight of thenine species examined.
(12) Given that dasyurid marsupials are predominantly carnivorous, the episodic intake of food in the wild and the high nutritive content of that food suggest that food may be an important zeitgeber in these species.
(13) Hyperplastic or benign neoplastic masses in adrenals and livers were common in dasyurids.
(14) Dasyurids often had multiple proliferative lesions.
(15) Gel electrophoresis of blood proteins has detected allelic variation at five loci (TRF, PGD, SOD, ADA, GPI) in a laboratory colony of the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata.
(16) No obvious aetiological factors have been identified in any of the tumour conditions in dasyurids although there is some evidence to suggest a genetic predisposition to lymphosarcoma in the fat-tailed antechinus.
(17) In this study, some formal and functional aspects of circadian organization in a nocturnal dasyurid marsupial, the stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura), were analyzed.
(18) A variety of mammary proliferations was present in dasyurids.
(19) To evaluate biological and biochemical variability in nonencapsulated Trichinella isolates, biological and allozymic studies were conducted on isolates of Trichinella collected from a raptoral bird (Aquila rapax) and a fox (Vulpes corsac) in Kazakhstan and from a dasyurid marsupial (Dasyurus maculatus) on the island of Tasmania, Australia.
(20) A heterologous double antibody radioimmunoassay has been validated for measurement of LH in plasma of a dasyurid marsupial.