(n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results would suggest that N-terminal acetylation and C-terminal proteolytic cleavage are important post-translational modifications of the forms of Amia beta-endorphin.
(2) Its existence in adult Amia, in most Osteoglossomorpha, and in many non-euteleostean bony fishes suggests that its persistence in the adult stage is a primitive trait of bony fishes, and its absence in the Notopteroidei (with the exception of Hiodon) is a derived condition.
(3) The suppressor mutations had therefore dissociated the two properties associated with a mutation in the amiA cistron, namely aminopterin resistance and isoleucine sensitivity.
(4) However, the two distributions of integration efficiencies of amiA mutants arisen either in strain Cl(3) or strain 401 are significantly different.
(5) Amino acid metabolism was examined in mitochondria from the lateral red muscle of a teleost (lake char, Salvelinus namaycush) and a nonteleost fish (bowfin, Amia calva).
(6) Yellow corpuscles from the ventral surface of the anterior kidney in bowfins (Amia calva L.) converted [7-3H]pregnenolone to radioactive 11-deoxycortisol, cortisol, and corticosterone in vitro.
(7) In pneumococcal transformation a particular point mutation belonging to the amiA locus is able markedly to enhance recombination frequency when crossed with any other markers of this gene.
(8) A new technique is presented for determining the volume of extracellular space in bowfin (Amia calva) brain during in vitro incubation.
(9) Kinetic analyses of ligand binding indicate that the Bohr and Root effects of Amia calva hemoglobins are best explained by changes in both the "on" and "off" constants.
(10) It was first observed in two-point crosses between an amiA mutation (amiA36) carrying this sequence and other closely linked mutants of the locus.
(11) Homologous peptides belonging to the pancreatic polypeptide (PP) family were isolated from the pancreas of a teleostean fish, the American eel (Anguilla rostrata), an holostean fish, the bowfin (Amia calva) and an elasmobranch fish, the skate (Raja rhina), and their primary structures were determined.
(12) The two species of holosteans studied, Amia calva and Lepisosteus platyrhincus, exhibited changes of melanophore index (melanosome aggregation), indicating responses to MCH and to melatonin but no response to norepinephrine (NE).
(13) The nephron of adult bowfin, Amia calva, was described using light and electron microscopic techniques.
(14) Thus, the majority of quinacrine-induced mutants at the amiA locus of pneumococcus consists of frameshift mutations.
(15) The number of spontaneous amiA mutants, estimated by two methods, was found to be higher in strain 401 than in strain Cl(3).
(16) Amethopterin-resistant mutants belonging to the amiA locus were used for these investigations.
(17) The distribution of integration efficiencies of independent mutations spontaneously occurring in the amiA locus was determined in two strains of pneumococcus.
(18) The majority of the AMIA in all the animals was anti-idiotypic and wholly anti-idiotypic in the TLI animals.
(19) The primary structure of insulin from a holostean fish, the bowfin (Amia calva), was established as: A-chain: Gly-Ile-Val-Glu-Gln-Cys-Cys-Leu-Lys-Pro-Cys-Thr-Ile-Tyr-Glu-Met-Glu- Lys-Tyr-Cys-Asn B-chain: Ala-Ala-Ser-Gln-His-Leu-Cys-Gly-Ser-His-Leu-Val-Glu-Ala-Leu-Phe-Leu- Val-Cys-Gly-Glu-Ser-Gly-Phe-Phe-Tyr-Asn-Pro-Asn-Lys-Ser This amino acid sequence contains several substitutions (methionine at A16, phenylalanine at B16 and serine at B22) at sites that have been strongly conserved in other vertebrate species and that may be expected to influence biological activity.
(20) Ammonia-N was the major form of nonfaceal nitrogen excreted by L. amia and excretion rates were temperature-dependent.
Aria
Definition:
(n.) An air or song; a melody; a tune.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here petrol is practically a free gift,” Arias said.
(2) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(3) The authors present the clinical history of a 61 year old woman who was treated in the Metropolitan Hospital Complex Arnulfo Arias Madrid of the Social Security.
(4) Another company working on UAVs, and taking an open-source approach, is Aria (Autonomous Roadless Intelligent Array) Logistics.
(5) Based on SDS PAGE and the action of neuraminidase, the acetylcholine receptor-inducing activity (ARIA) appears to be a 42,000-D glycoprotein.
(6) That's why Italians talk as though they're singing lovely operatic arias and had a Renaissance, while in Finland conversations so often go like this – First lugubrious man: "This beer's good."
(7) However, the Arias-Stella reaction is exceedingly rare in the fallopian tube, and may be confused with herpetic infection or malignancy.
(8) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(9) It can be a bit chaotic, with not enough room to sit down.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father Fabian Arias, an immigration advocate in New York City, helps people through the legal process at a hearing last month.
(10) The correlation coefficients obtained, based on 62 (out of a total sample population of 3295) highly relevant samples, were 0.467 and 0.766 for Abuscreen (ARIA) and TDx (TDX), respectively.
(11) Although the ARIA was purified on the basis of its ability to increase receptor incorporation, we found that it increased the number and size of receptor clusters as well.
(12) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(13) It is reported for the first time that two of the finest arias of this opera were conceived and elaborated in a ward of the Frankfurt University Clinic for Rhinolaryngology immediately after an operation on Richard Strauss in 1928.
(14) The authors report the results of cholecystectomies, with and without drainages performed at the Arnulfo Arias Madrid Metropolitan Medical Complex from May 1986 to May 1990.
(15) Artifactual crowding of glands due to fragmentation and benign processes such as the epithelial regeneration in late menstrual endometrium and the Arias-Stella reaction should not be confused with precancerous changes.
(16) Several factors have been suggested to play a role in this process, such as an acetylcholine receptor-inducing activity (ARIA), ascorbic acid, or calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a peptide known to coexist with acetylcholine in spinal cord motoneurons.
(17) The EU’s commissioner for climate action and energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, said Trump’s unilateral decision marked a sad day for the global community, but he vowed the accord would endure.
(18) A 42-kDa glycoprotein isolated from chicken brain, referred to as acetylcholine receptor-inducing activity (ARIA), that stimulates the rate of incorporation of acetylcholine receptors into the surface of chicken myotubes may play a role in the nerve-induced accumulation of receptors at developing neuromuscular synapses.
(19) The role of Arias-Stella reaction in diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy in a 35-year old woman who used a contraceptive coil in situ is described.
(20) The EU’s climate chief, Miguel Arias Cañete, has already signalled that he would like the union to ratify the Paris climate agreement at a conference in New York on 22 April.