(1) Other antennal mutants and flies with their aristae amputated do not show such extreme positive geotaxis.
(2) The arista, a characteristic appendage of dipteran antennae, consists of 2 short segments at the base and a long distal shaft.
(3) The TSP for ssa-40a overlapped the TSP for homoeotic transformation of aristae into tarsi but did not overlap the TSP for spineless effects.
(4) The homeotic mutant, ss(a40a), was found to have a temperature-sensitive transformation of the arista segment of the antennal complex to a tarsus of the leg.
(5) Friedman is 52, and grew up in California, where he attended Berkeley until he dropped out to become first a concert promoter, then a manager, and finally a talent scout for Arista.
(6) We report here the isolation and characterization of Aristapedioid, a gain of function mutation which causes a partial transformation of arista towards tarsus and the loss or decrease in size of the dorso-central and scutellar bristles.
(7) In 1999, after he condescended to play ball with the industry again via an Arista deal for the indifferent Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic , I finally got to interview the guy.
(8) The aristae of Drosophila have been shown to play a role in mating behavior and geotaxis.
(9) Only one visible mutation was isolated, a recessive temperature-sensitive allele of Thickened-arista (Tarts).
(10) Heterozygous deficient females have most, if not all, of the Minute features (short and fine bristles, rough and somewhat larger eyes, thin-textured wings, missing aristae, affected antennae, delayed development, reduced fertility, and decreased viability).
(11) In a selected stock penetrance was complete, so that at 29 degrees C normal aristae were produced, whereas at 17 degrees C complete tarsi developed in all flies.
(12) The homeotic mutant spineless-aristapedia (ssa) transforms the arista into a leg-like tarsus.
(13) The homeotic mutation spineless-aristapedia (ss(a)) transforms the aristae into second tarsi.
(14) These results show that SSa females, although lacking aristae, could distinguish between the two types of males in that they mated more readily with males that sang.
(15) Charged with making a more straightforward album to appease his new label Arista, whose intervention had apparently saved him from bankruptcy, he made Rock and Roll Heart, which if it was pallid enough to get on mid-70s radio spoiled its chances of doing so with its lyrics: "I believe in the iron cross."
Awn
Definition:
(n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
Example Sentences:
(1) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
(2) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
(3) Gorette-Nicaise, Awn, and Dhem (1983) as well as the study by Whetten, and Johnston (1985) have shown that neither the absence of the lateral pterygoid muscle nor the physical volumetric expansion of the airway increases condylar growth.
(4) Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani had spent 14 years in Guantánamo, where he was held without trial and was suspected of being an al-Qaida member who “possibly” worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his leaked prisoner file.
(5) A small square building with a corrugated iron awning marks the corner with East Trenton Street.
(6) AWN may, thus, participate in the initial events of fertilization in the pig.
(7) The germination of freshly harvested seed is depressed following heat stress at 7--10 days after awn emergence, but is enhanced by the same stress applied 3 weeks after awn emergence.
(8) Analysis of the amino acid sequence of the AWN proteins showed significant similarity only to AQN-1 and AQN-3, two other boar spermadhesins.
(9) Hair thickness--especially at the thickest point--ranges from 140 to 236 microns for the awn hair and from 19 to 106 microns for the fur hair.
(10) Some of the “client accommodation” sits right on the road behind tall mesh, asylum seekers sitting in the shade of open awnings.
(11) The development of the allometric equation, Y = aWn, relating species body size (W) with various morphological, physiological, biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological characteristics, as the fundamental basis for extrapolation of biological data from laboratory animals to man is outlined.
(12) The awn and the fur hair of Pudu were investigated.
(13) AWN exists as two isoforms, AWN-1 and AWN-2, which differ in that AWN-2 is N-terminally acetylated.
(14) In Type III, an "awning effect" of the acromion was observed to influence active motion.
(15) Trucks still rumble down the potholed road through the town but the last workers have long gone home, walking past the furled awnings of the market stalls, over the single footbridge, along the battered pavements, to the tenement apartments, the squalid huts, the tin-roofed homes by the fetid pond.
(16) This small standing-room-only taquería, identified on its awning with the single word "HOLA", is renowned locally, a favourite of Condesa hipsters.
(17) A green awning offers shade to those who visit with condolences for the death of his three year-old grandchild, while the young mother leans listless against a post of the house.
(18) They gathered, one week on to the minute from the assault of Friday the 13th, around what seemed to be a shadow devoid of life and light – a heavy black tarpaulin draped over the entrance to the Bataclan theatre: or “ba’ta’clan café”, as the awning reads.
(19) AQN-1 shares extensive structural, as well as functional, similarity with two other boar sperm zona-pellucida-binding proteins, AQN-3 and AWN, which we have recently characterized.
(20) Underneath an awning on the pontoon, a gigantic banner proclaims "Venezuela", a gift from the young musicians of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra.