(n.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.
(n.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it was also shown that the bacteria that infect the macronuclei of P. multimicronucleatum and the P. aurelia species complex always disappear from the nuclei within 5 days and the infected bacteria are maintained stably in the host nuclei in only 13 out of 22 strains of P. caudatum.
(2) Results are presented for intra- and interspecies variation in electrophoretic mobility of the enzyme glucosephosphate isomerase in the Paramecium aurelia species complex.
(3) The intracellular concentration of free Ca2+ in resting P. aurelia was at least ten times less than the extracellular concentration.
(4) These results suggest that a difference in specificity of the immaturity substances exists bewteen paramecia of the 'aurelia' group and those of the 'bursaria' group.
(5) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
(6) aurelia syngen 4) cells to pulse treatments with various doses of Actinomycin D (AMD) was estimated by comparing the generation times of treated and untreated sister cells.
(7) They were thought to be limited to the cytoplasm of two species in the Paramecium aurelia species complex.
(8) The tRNA methyltransferases from Paramecium aurelia were investigated.
(9) Paramecium aurelia is chosen as the material for a genetic dissection of the excitable membrane.
(10) Several mutants of Paramecium aurelia have been selected on the basis of their resistance to the paralyzing effect of barium.
(11) The characteristics of Ca2+ transport across the excitable membrane of Paramecium aurelia were studied by measuring 45Ca2+ influx and efflux.
(12) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
(13) Using these mitochondrial markers, the interactions between nucleus and mitochondria have been studied in two ways: by microinjection of mitochondria from one stock or species into other stocks and species of P. aurelia and by a genetic study of a nuclear mutation affecting mitochondrial multiplication.
(14) The responses of Aurelia medusae to pharmacological agents and ionic variation were classified into four response types: Type I, no response; Type II, inhibition of pacemaker activity; Type III, inhibition of both pacemakers and swimming muscles; and Type IV, increase in pacemaker output.
(15) Sites with high calcium affinity in Paramecium aurelia were identified by high calcium (5 mM) fixation and electron microscope methods.
(16) The reversal response in Paramecium aurelia is mediated by calcium which carries the inward current during excitation.
(17) The "paranoiac" mutants of Paramecium aurelia show prolonged backward swimming in solutions containing Na+, unlike wild-type paramecia, which jerk back and forth in Na+ solutions.
(18) When The Bell Jar was first published in January 1963, it appeared under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, because, according to Sigmund, the author did not want to upset Aurelia or other people who feature in the book.
(19) With the aid of the Aurelia metamorphosis test system, the acute and subtle developmental and behavioral effects of X irradiation in the presence and absence of thyroxine on the Norfolk Aurelia aurita were described.
(20) "Pawns" are mutants of Paramecium aurelia in which the process of calcium activation during membrane excitation is genetically impaired, with a corresponding loss of avoiding reactions.
Chrysalis
Definition:
(n.) The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) With many of London's big radio stations recording both falling audiences and share of the market, Capital has come out on top, trailed by Emap's Magic in second place, with Chrysalis's Heart slipping from first to third place in the space of three months.
(3) When she emerges from the chrysalis as an adult, she emits pheromones to attract a mate, lays her eggs where she is, and dies.
(4) GCap and Chrysalis were bought at the top of the market and advertising revenues subsequently dried up as the economic recession took hold.
(5) The assets he's offering to the indie sector are, apparently, Virgin, Chrysalis UK (excluding its deal with Robbie Williams), Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(6) Grainge was bullish that the enforced asset sale – which will include EMI operations in nine European countries and labels such as Chrysalis, Mute and Sanctuary, home to artists including Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode and Iron Maiden respectively – will draw premium bids and that Universal will not lose out by offloading them.
(7) Allen, meanwhile, became chairman of newly formed Global Radio, which has since become the UK's largest commercial radio group by buying Chrysalis and GCap Media, and joined the boards of Big Brother producer Endemol and Virgin Media.
(8) The Global boss is the son of Michael Tabor, who amassed a fortune from bookmaking, horsebreeding and property, and helped bankroll the £545m double purchase of GCap Media and Chrysalis Radio that created Global's broadcasting empire.
(9) Sound Digital faces competition from a rival bid, Listen2 Digital, backed by former Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley’s Midlands radio group Orion Media and engineering services outfit, Babcock International.
(10) Global was set up last year when its management team bought the stations of music and radio company Chrysalis with private equity money.
(11) Global, the home of Classic FM, Capital, Heart and the London talk station LBC, was born out of the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media which was masterminded by the group's youthful founder, Ashley Tabor, the son of the billionaire Michael Tabor.
(12) There is no love lost between Taunton, who came to the UK in 1995 as general manager of the internet service provider DNA Internet, and Tabor, son of the billionaire Michael Tabor, who created the Global Radio empire out of nothing with the £545m double purchase of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.
(13) The project is called Butterfly, and the metaphor is immediate: a splendid winged object is soon to emerge from a lumpen chrysalis.
(14) After the first single, 2 Tone made a deal with Chrysalis to become its autonomous subsidiary, rejecting an approach from Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones Records.
(15) The Sunday Times reported that Chris Wright, founder of the music publishing firm Chrysalis, who backed Labour in the 2005 election, said the party risked stoking the politics of envy.
(16) He takes over from the presenter of the past two years, Simon Hirst, the breakfast DJ on Chrysalis' Galaxy station in Yorkshire.
(17) Addictions are not something to trivialise, but the majority of bright young things will emerge from the chrysalis of their teenage years a whole lot wiser, smarter and freer than they were before, with no desire to revisit the era of experimentation.
(18) The commercial network also believes that responsibility for regulating the BBC should be taken away from its board of governors and given to Ofcom - a view backed almost universally in submissions to the media regulator's BBC charter review by rival media organisations including Channel 4, ITN, Chrysalis and the Commercial Radio Companies Association.
(19) However, in some ways the plane is itself the chrysalis.
(20) Meanwhile Phil Riley, the chief executive of Chrysalis Radio, called the poor set of figures for Heart "transitionary" saying the quarter accounted for a move between the "old" Heart and the "new".