(n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
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Algonquin
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Algonkin
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(1) Fisher and marten appeared to be the key hosts maintaining Trichinella in the Algonquin region, but transmission dynamics were unclear.
(2) Five species of myxosporideans were found in pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus L.) from Ryan Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario.
(3) In late 1969 or early 1970, John Birt, then an editor for Granada's World in Action (and later the director general of the BBC), interviewed Frost at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.
(4) Specific neutralizing antibody to JC virus was detected in 71% of 31 and 65% of 20 moose from Algonquin and Isle Royale, respectively.
(5) The pattern of replication of A. ranarum in host erythrocytes and its prevalence over a 3-yr period in frogs from Algonquin Park, Ontario are discussed.
(6) An additional six moose from Algonquin and five from Isle Royale showed evidence of multiple infection.
(7) The estimated copy number in D. algonquin of the four element families varied from 59 to 333.
(8) Infective larvae of Dioctophyma renale were found in the hypaxial musculature of pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus L.) from three lakes in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
(9) Each clone was hybridized to salivary-gland chromosomes of three lines of D. algonquin and two lines of D. affinis.
(10) I looked up the definition for redskin and although most online dictionaries agree that the term is offensive, most will give the definition as: "The original name was a European one used to describe Algonquins who painted their face with bright red ocher and bloodroot, thereby making their face red with war paint."
(11) Blood samples were collected from free-ranging elk (Cervus elaphus) harvested in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula, from moose (Alces alces) relocated from Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and from moose from Michigan's Isle Royale National Park.
(12) A 5 yr survey (1985 to 1989) revealed that the prevalence of frog erythrocytic virus (FEV) was significantly higher in juveniles than in adult bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) in Algonquin Park, Ontario (Canada).
(13) When larvae of Drosophila algonquin parasitized by the hymenopterous parasite (parasitoid) Pseudeucoila bochei are ligatured early after infection so as to exclude the anterior endocrine center from the hemocytes and parasites located posterior to the ligature there is a decrease in the immune reaction rate.
(14) The virus is found in the cytoplasm of erythrocytes of Rana catesbeiana, Rana septentrionalis, and Rana clamitans from Algonquin Park, Ontario (Canada).
(15) The development of Trypanosoma fallisi of Bufo americanus from Algonquin Park, Ontario was studied by light and electron microscopy in blood culture, in its leech vector Desserobdella (= Batracobdella) picta, and in its toad host.
(16) The haemocytic reactions of larvae of Drosophila algonquin leading to encapsulation and melanization of eggs of the hymenopterous parasite Pseudeucoila bochei are characterized in part by the premature mass differentiation of plasmatocytes to lamellocytes.
(17) Prevalences of infections by Trichinella were determined for fisher and marten from the Algonquin region, over a 10-yr period.
(18) Thus the transposable portion of the D. algonquin genome is dominated by a few high-copy-number elements, each characterized by high occupancies.
(19) Four clones containing different transposable elements were isolated from a genomic library of Drosophila algonquin.
(20) During May to August 1988, the prevalence of Lankesterella minima in bullfrog tadpoles and adults in the vicinity of Lake Sasajewun, Algonquin Park, Ontario, was 54.8% and 29.4%, respectively.