Mighty Mouse
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK with a capacity to house thousands of mouse lines has an ambition to become the world's largest warehouse for knockout mice in which individual genes are selectively deleted or knocked out from the genome. Some researchers have expressed doubt whether this way of creating and characterizing large knockout mouse lines is the most efficient way to obtain useful information about how the genome works.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Flight of the navigators
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The ice-breaker Oden, tracked migratory birds as they left the Arctic through the Bering Strait, in a project called Beringia 2005 to study the way birds navigate during their annual migration. Thousands of birds gather from all over the world to breed and rear their young in the summer Arctic, where the landscape is temporarily rich with thousands of plants and insect species.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Audience drives male songbird response to partner's voice
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The behavior of the male of a gregarious songbird species, the Zebra finch birds to the female mate's call is studied. It is reported that the male bird pays attention to the mating status of conspecific pairs, and uses this information to control its behavior towards its female partner.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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