(n.) A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amphid cilia in che-10 (e1809) apparently degenerate, leaving dendrites with bulb-shaped endings filled with dark ground material.
(2) The che-12 (e1812) mutation eliminates matrix material normally secreted by the amphid sheath cell.
(3) These are amphid neurons ADF, ASH, ASI, ASJ, ASK, and ADL and phasmid neurons PHA and PHB.
(4) Each amphid consists of a distal cuticular channel which opens to the exterior, and a proximal amphidial gland.
(5) Unlike HPA, WGA did bind specifically to the secretory column contents and the electron-dense regions of the lips associated with the chemosensory amphids.
(6) Anti-GABA immunoreactivity was localized in two cell bodies near the amphids in all life stages and FMRF-amide immunoreactivity was seen in the nerve ring in all developmental stages.
(7) The che-14 (e1960) mutation disrupts the joining of the amphid sheath and socket cells to form the receptor channel.
(8) These include four nerve ring-associated cells (the RME-like cells), two bilaterally symmetrical pairs of lateral ganglia neurons (the amphid-GABA and deirid-GABA cells) and one bilaterally symmetrical pair of ventral ganglion cells (the VG-GABA cells).
(9) The amphids of adult Gastromermis boophthorae exhibit an organization unlike any previously reported.
(10) The osm-3 (p802) mutation specifically eliminates the distal segment of the amphid cilia.
(11) The mec-1 and mec-8 (e398) mutations disrupt the fasciculation of the amphid cilia.
(12) The SEM observation of the mouth part of the females showed 6 cord-like cuticular thickenings in hexagonal arrangement and an amphid was observed.
(13) This glycoprotein, which is either secreted from the mouth or the amphids or both is exuded whether or not the larvae have been stimulated to exsheath.
(14) The shape of internal and external mouth papillae, amphids, deirids, postdeirid and phasmidial pore was studied.
(15) The histochemical pattern of acid phosphatase activity in the microfilaria of L. loa showed a diffuse red staining all over the body, with conspicuous staining of the excretory and anal vesicles, Innenkörper, amphids and phasmids.
(16) The morphological surfaces of the anterior end, head spine, body cuticle, amphid, papillae, posterior end of larvae were described and compared with the advance third-stage (aL3) larvae.
(17) Head shape, cuticle, and intestinal ultrastructure are nondauer, whereas sensory structures (amphid and deirid) and excretory gland morphology are intermediate between that of dauer and nondauer stages.
(18) The presence or absence of enzymic activity in the excretory cell complex and in the Mundgebilde (amphids) of the developing larvae can be used as an adjunctive diagnostic method.
(19) The amphid cilia in che-11 (e1810) are irregular in diameter and contain dark ground material in the middle of the axonemes.
(20) One of these pairs consists of medium-sized lateral ganglia neurons, located at the level of the amphid commissure bundle.
Phasmid
Definition:
(n.) Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) From one phasmid, several marA-containing fragments were cloned: those of greater than or equal to 7.8 kbp restored the ability to form Mar mutants in a deletion strain.
(2) Spermatids from two phasmid species were seen to possess an unusually large amount of microtubules along the nucleus and tail.
(3) kurstaki (strain Dipel) and galleriae (strain 11-67) have been constructed on the basis of phasmid vector lambda pSL5.
(4) On their descent they found droppings that seemed too large to be from any other insect and decided to return at night when the phasmids were known to be active.
(5) The bat gene product can also antagonize the lambda cI repressor as shown by the observation that lambda pR phasmids are virulent on a homoimmune lysogen.
(6) The region available for recombination spans the homologous sequence shared by the plasmid and the phasmid.
(7) After scaling the mount and not seeing any of the phasmids, the scientists resigned themselves to heading home empty-handed.
(8) By means of interspecific complementation of an Escherichia coli recA- mutation with phasmids containing a gene bank from an obligate methylotroph, Methylobacillus flagellatum (Mf), the recA+ gene from this bacterium was identified.
(9) These are amphid neurons ADF, ASH, ASI, ASJ, ASK, and ADL and phasmid neurons PHA and PHB.
(10) The psu gene product of "phasmid" (phage-plasmid) P4 acts as a transcription antitermination factor in trans and in cis, respectively, within the morphogenic operons of its P2 phage helper during lytic viral development and on P4 itself during the establishment stage of its alternative mode of propagation as a plasmid.
(11) When an L1 shuttle phasmid containing a cloned gene conferring kanamycin resistance in E. coli was introduced into M. smegmatis, stable kanamycin-resistant colonies--i.e., lysogens--were obtained.
(12) Recombinant phasmid clones, carrying delta-endotoxin-coding genes of both subspecies have been isolated by means of immunoenzyme screening.
(13) pKGB2 is a phasmid vector with a cloning capacity of about 7.5 kb; useful unique cloning sites are SacI and SacII in the streptomycin resistance determinant and PvuI and XhoI in the kanamycin resistance determinant.
(14) For this, DNA isolated from the mycobacteria was treated by EcoRI restrictases and the fragments of 8-17 thousand nucleotide pairs were crosslinked with the phasmid DNA.
(15) A lateral line, a vaginal opening, a pair of phasmids, and an anus were identified in the body portion.
(16) All the recombinant phasmids complementing the lysA gene of E. coli contain common 2.2 kb and 3.3 kb EcoRI C. glutamicum DNA fragments.
(17) The extent of differentiation of the sex organs was found to be greater than that of 3rd-stage Dioctophyma renale, or of the infective stage of Trichinella spiralis, and comparable with the late 4th-stage larva of secernentean (phasmid) nematodes.
(18) Shuttle phasmids can be transduced into a wide variety of mycobacterial species and thus should permit the development of molecular genetic systems for the mycobacteria.
(19) This phasmid utilizes the Spi- selection for insertions of DNA into the vector and has the ability to accept 2- to 19-kilobase Sau3A1, BamHI, BglII, BclI, or XhoII fragments; recombinants lysogenize immune hosts as single-copy-number selectable plasmids at 100% frequency.
(20) These temperate shuttle phasmids form turbid plaques on Mycobacterium smegmatis and, upon lysogenization, confer resistance to superinfection and integrate within the mycobacterial chromosome.