216 results about "Animal species" patented technology

A behavioral monitoring system useful for the analysis of complex behaviors in a number of animal species. The monitoring systems of this invention allow continuous monitoring of feeding, drinking and movement of animals with high temporal and spatial resolution. In certain embodiments, the system comprises an enclosure comprising: an animal position indicator; a food consumption indicator; and a fluid consumption indicator, where the system reports behavioral data at a temporal resolution of 20 seconds or lower.

Provided is a method for detection of a preselected condition such as subclinical stress or pain in a subject animal using heart rate variability. The method comprises the steps of determining a heart rate and / or inter-beat interval for the subject animal over a preselected period of time to determine the subject animal's heart rate data. The method further comprises analyzing the heart rate or inter-beat data from the subject animal to identify a set of heart rate variability data for the subject animal for a selected heart rate variability parameter such as a frequency domain or time domain parameter such as LF / HF ratio. The heart rate variability data from the selected animal can be compared to substantially normal values established for the selected animal species or compared to the subject animal's own previously identified substantially normal values or HRV pattern over a period of time and thereby determine whether the preselected condition exists.

This invention pertains to a novel behavioral monitoring system useful for the analysis of complex behaviors in a number of animal species. The monitoring systems of this invention allow continuous monitoring of feeding, drinking and movement of animals with high temporal and spatial resolution. In certain embodiments, teh system comprises an enclosure comprising: an animal position indicator; a food consumption indicator; and a fluid consumption indicator, where the system reports behavioral data at a temporal resolution of 20 seconds or lower.

The invention provides methods and reagents for detecting a chromosomal aberration in an animal chromosome or karyotype. One or more detectably-labeled chromosome-specific probes from a first animal species are hybridized to chromosomes of a second animal species. This results in a banding pattern that can be compared to the pattern found in a normal chromosome or karyotype.

Relatively powerful hand-held computing devices, Digital Signal Processors, Audio signal processing technology, voice recognition technology, expert systems, Hidden Markov Models, and / or neural networks are employed in a device capable of real-time automated species identification by listening to bird vocalizations in the field, analyzing their waveforms, and comparing these waveforms against known reference samples. An apparatus for identifying animal species from their vocalizations, comprises a source of digital signal representative of at least one animal candidate vocalization; a feature extractor that receives the digital signal, recognizes notes therein and extracts phrases including plural notes and that produces a parametric representation of the extracted phrases; and a comparison engine that receives the parametric representation of at least one of the digital signal and the extracted phrases, and produces an output signal representing information about the animal candidate based on a likely match between the animal candidate vocalization and known animal vocalizations. A computer-implemented method of identifying animal species, comprises: obtaining a digital signal representing a vocalization by a candidate animal; transforming the digital signal into a parametric representation thereof; extracting from the parametric representation a sequence of notes defining a phrase; comparing the phrase to phrases known to be produced by a plurality of possible animal species; and identifying a most likely match for the vocalization by the candidate animal based upon the comparison. The comparison engine or comparison function may use Hidden Markov Models, expert systems and / or neural networks.

Relatively powerful hand-held computing devices, Digital Signal Processors, Audio signal processing technology, voice recognition technology, expert systems, Hidden Markov Models, and / or neural networks are employed in a device capable of real-time automated species identification by listening to bird vocalizations in the field, analyzing their waveforms, and comparing these waveforms against known reference samples. An apparatus for identifying animal species from their vocalizations, comprises a source of digital signal representative of at least one animal candidate vocalization; a feature extractor that receives the digital signal, recognizes notes therein and extracts phrases including plural notes and that produces a parametric representation of the extracted phrases; and a comparison engine that receives the parametric representation of at least one of the digital signal and the extracted phrases, and produces an output signal representing information about the animal candidate based on a likely match between the animal candidate vocalization and known animal vocalizations. A computer-implemented method of identifying animal species, comprises: obtaining a digital signal representing a vocalization by a candidate animal; transforming the digital signal into a parametric representation thereof; extracting from the parametric representation a sequence of notes defining a phrase; comparing the phrase to phrases known to be produced by a plurality of possible animal species; and identifying a most likely match for the vocalization by the candidate animal based upon the comparison. The comparison engine or comparison function may use Hidden Markov Models, expert systems and / or neural networks.

A method for detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in biological fluids provides immunoassay methods, diagnostic kits, and an immunochromatoraphic assay device for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in biological specimens, preferably body fluids and tissues. The preferred body fluids are blood, serum, plasma, urine, pulmonary fluid, sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, and the preferred tissue is the lung biopsy specimen. The immunoassays require two primary antibodies against RD1, RD2, or RD3 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. At least one of the primary antibodies is attached to a solid carrier. Optional, a second antibody against an animal species producing one of the primary antibodies can be added. Either the other primary antibody or the secondary antibody is labeled with a detection agent, which can be an enzymatic marker, a fluorescent or luminescent agent, a radio active label or a color particle. The biological specimens may be used directly, concentrated or diluted for the immunoassays.

The invention discloses a primer system for PCR (polymerase chain reaction) identification for a deer, a pig, a cow, a sheep, a horse, a donkey, a rabbit and a chicken, and can detect eight animal species in one time so as to achieve a purpose that common animal species can be almost covered. The primer of the primer system only carries out specific amplification on a respective species target segment without reacting with other species, and therefore the primer can be suitable for multiple PCR reaction characterized in that at least two primer pairs are induced in one-time PCR reaction so as to effectively shorten experiment time. In addition, when the PCR is carried out, an optimized specific PCR reaction system and reaction program can be used, a detection flow is simplified due to the adoption of a uniform PCR detection method, a quick and efficient identification mode with the high specificity is established so as to effectively identify whether the deer blood product is true and false and identify the adulteration mode, and a modern molecular biology detection means is provided for deer blood quality control. In addition, the primer system can be cooperated with relevant reagent to be prepared into a kit, thereby being convenient to use. Meanwhile, possibility is provided for the industrial production and application, and the primer system has an excellent application prospect.

The fusion protein rESAT-6:CFP-10 is useful for differentiating infection of an animal with Mycobacterium bovis from exposure of the animal to other species of Mycobacteria, especially M. avium and M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map). Cells stimulated with the fusion protein are capable of eliciting a variety of in vivo and in vitro responses (e.g. hypersensitivity skin response, IFN-γ, nitric oxide, and TNF-α) indicative of M. bovis infection. This invention will facilitate diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle, reindeer and other susceptible animal species, thereby preventing unnecessary slaughter of uninfected animals suspected of having of the disease.

The present invention is related to the use of stem cells of an animal species for obtainment of biological tooth substitute, in whole or in parts, to be implanted in organism of the same animal strain, wherein said stem cells can be adult cells. The present invention still aims to develop a method of tissue engineering for culturing cells capable to form dental tissue for production of a tooth biological substitute. The said dental tissue can used for the treatment of people suffering from loss, fail or lack of these tissues, and also for cosmetic use of those tissues for a morphological modifying on a patient dentition, for example, the patient may desire to, or need to, have a bigger or smaller dentition for any aesthetic reason.

The invention relates to the technical field of screening of animal species, in particular to a screening method for nicotine-resistant housefly species. The screening method comprises the steps that specific materials of a non-applicable fresh tobacco leaf formula are utilized to trap wild houseflies to come around to lay eggs, larvas of the wild houseflies are cultivated to a mature state, and the housefly species resistant to nicotine are screened according to growth and development indexes of the larvas. According to the screening method, the specific materials of the trapping formula are utilized, and therefore the housefly species effectively resistant to the nicotine can be screened out.

It relates to a method of cultivating and breeding new animal species, and especially a method of cultivating and breeding new pig species. The method includes the steps as below. First, domesticating the boars, creating the Domestication environment and feeding the boars with favorite feeding stuff. Second, selection of boars, that is, through genetic analysis, selecting the Duroc and the Meishan pig as the pig races of mating cultivate agnate female parent and matrilineal maternal. Third, mating and breeding, that is, across mating fixedly the young animal generation, and selecting and seeding for generations. Four, Rearing technique, that is, feeding with green grass and roughage principally.

A method and apparatus for the humane euthanasia of small animals involves the use of a programmable controller and animal holding chamber. The apparatus includes a Mass Flow Controller (“MFC”) having a closed-loop interface with a Programmable Logic Controller (“PLC”) to provide a predetermined flow rate of gas under specified pressures for specified time periods. The PLC is preprogrammed to provide various cycles that are designed to provide the proper flow rate for various animal species. The program may allow for a two-stage flow rate cycle so that in the first stage the animal is anesthetized and in the second stage the animals are euthanatized.

The invention provides methodologies for improved molecular genetic analysis of individual animals and animal populations. The invention includes methods and systems for identifying those animals in a population that are most likely to heritably pass on desirable traits. Provided are means for evaluating the estimated breeding values and increasing the average genetic merit for animals in a population. For each trait, the instant invention provides methods for evaluating the relative effect of one or more quantitative trait loci (QTL) and three or more molecular genetic markers for each QTL The relationship between these various markers and the pre-selected trait and QTL is calculated, along with the contribution of other factors such as pedigree and known measures with respect to quantitative trait, and these data are used to calculate estimated breeding values for the animals in the herd and to rank the animals according to these estimated breeding values.

A system for carrying out pest baiting, comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which is controllable to record image data over a predefined flight path, the image data being captured by an image recording device. A computer processing arrangement is operable to evaluate the recorded image data to determine pest related data associated with an animal species identified as a pest, and to subsequently determine a baiting program for eradication of the animal species based on the determined pest data.

The invention provides an animal species classification method and device, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining a to-be-classified animal image and respectively extracting feature vectors of the animal image through multiple different network models; splicing the feature vectors respectively extracted by the multiple different network models into a combined vector; and inputting the combined vector into a trained convolutional neural network so as to output a classification result of the to-be-classified animal image. According to theanimal species classification method and device, the computer equipment and the storage medium, the correctness of recognizing animal species is enhanced and the defect that the present recognition correctness is low is overcome.

The invention relates to the technical field of identification of animal species and animal-derived components, in particular to a method for detecting a goose-derived component and a primer for detecting a nucleotide sequence of goose cell mitochondria, which aim to identify whether the goose-derived component is contained in products such as feeds, foods and the like or not. Due to the design of a specific amplification primer, mitochondrion deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) which is independent of one another genetically, does not have repeated sequences and does not have tissue specificity in a biological individual is detected by using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, and a PCR detection method for the goose-derived component is established, so that the aim of quickly and accurately detecting and identifying the goose-derived component is fulfilled.

Capsules or microcapsules comprising: a) a nucleus containing seminal material or the spermatozoa of animal species chosen from the group consisting of equids, buffalo, ovicaprids, canids, felids, lagomorphs, laboratory animal species chosen from mice and rats, and possibly man, b) a membrane of a bivalent or trivalent metal alginate.

The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment.

It has been discovered that there are at least two significant antigens present on the cells of animal species such as pigs that elicit an immune or inflammatory response immediately upon implantation into humans or contact with human serum. The first is an α-galactosyl (Gal) epitope, for example, Galα(1->3)Galβ(1->4)GlcNac (linear B type 2) or Galα(1->3) Galβ(1->4)Glc (linear B type 6). The second is an N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) structure. By eliminating these epitopes, preferably by genetically engineering the animal so that the epitope is either not produced or is greatly reduced, or by chemical or enzymatic treatment of the animal's cells to remove the epitopes, it is possible to produce organs, tissues and cells suitable for xenotransplantation into humans. Cells can be rendered even more compatible by genetically engineering the animal to express a human complement regulatory protein (inhibitor), such as CD59, on its cells, or to express an excess of a pig complement regulatory protein.

The invention discloses a method and device for controlling an air conditioner. The method includes the steps that image information of a target object is acquired; the image information is recognizedso that the animal species which the target object belongs to can be obtained; and based on the animal species which the target object belongs to, a current operation mode of the air conditioner is controlled. The method and device for controlling the air conditioner solve the technical problem that an existing air conditioner cannot provide a comfortable survival environment for pets in a targeted manner.

A device is disclosed for attracting predetermined species of animals based on fractal geometry and the animal's own color perception. The device includes a planar object having at least two opposed faces and a shape unique to the fractal dimension of the predetermined animal species which the device is designed to attract. A light emitting surface is disposed on at least one face of the planar object. The surface is covered with light generating elements adapted to emit a light color based on color perception of the predetermined specific species, which color wavelength and brilliance is unnatural in normal surroundings relative to that species' own color perception. Finally, a mechanism is provided for mounting the object and enabling oscillatory-like movement in the object about an axis thereof.

Systems and techniques are described for providing lighting. In general, in one implementation, the lighting includes an incandescent and a substantially monochromatic light emitting diode light source. When energized, both of the light sources emit a peak wavelength of light that is visible to human beings. The monochromatic light source can emit a wavelength of light that is not visible to a specified animal species.

The invention provides novel universal primers that can amplify the fragment of cytochrome b gene of any animal species in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reveal the identity of the biological material of any unknown animal origin and a method for identification of the specific animal from a given biological sample.

Provided is an antifouling coating composition capable of exhibiting an antifouling effect for a long period of time even in ocean water containing highly active barnacles, serpula, and other animal species, as well as hydrozoans and other coelenterates. This antifouling coating composition comprises (A) copper glass containing divalent copper, (B) metal pyrithiones, and (C) titanium oxide, wherein the metal of the metal pyrithiones is copper or zinc; the composition further contains a spreading resin; the content of copper in the copper glass (A) is 24-40 mol%; the content of the copper glass (A), in terms of solid content, is 1-20 mass% of the solid content of the antifouling coating composition; the content of the metal pyrithiones (B), in terms of solid content, is 25-150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the copper glass (A); and the content of the titanium oxide (C), in terms of solid content, is 50-300 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the copper glass (A).

The invention relates to an ecological red line delimiting method for protecting animals. The method includes the steps that a national priority protection animal species distribution database is built; environmental variables corresponding to distribution points and background points of national priority protection animal species are extracted; all the priority protection animal species are modeled respectively through a random forest model, and habitat suitability indexes of the priority protection animal species are predicted; the habitat suitability indexes of all the priority protection animal species are iteratively calculated, and habitat suitability composite indexes are obtained; based on the habitat suitability composite indexes, a local space cluster of high values of the habitat suitability composite indexes is determined through values of local Moran's I indexes and the Z statistical quantity, and a high-value clustering region is recognized; ecological red lines of the priority protection animal species are delimited.

The invention provides methods and reagents for detecting a chromosomal aberration in an animal chromosome or karyotype. One or more detectably-labeled chromosome-specific probes from a first animal species are hybridized to chromosomes of a second animal species. This results in a banding pattern that can be compared to the pattern found in a normal chromosome or karyotype.