(n.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neuropeptides identified with a radioimmunoassay specific for the C-terminus of Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 (YGGFMRF) have been extracted from nervous tissues of the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria and also from whole flies.
(2) Immunocytochemistry indicated that GAL-LI was present in the nervous system of the blowfly.
(3) Functions for the various cellular components of the blowfly chemoreceptor sensillum are offered.
(4) Spectral and polarization sensitivities of blowfly R1-6 photoreceptor cells were measured by intracellular recordings in cells which differed in visual pigment content.
(5) In the blowfly the cell bodies of these neurons are located at the anterior base of the medulla.
(6) Also acetylcolletotrichin had no detectable effect on the oxidative activity of blowfly flight-muscle mitochondria and was not very effective with heart mitochondria.
(7) The presence of glycosphingolipids in the pupae of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina, was established.
(8) These results indicate that in a cell-free system from blowfly salivary glands, 5-methyltryptamine, through a GTP-dependent mechanism, directly activates a phospholipase C which mediates phosphoinositide hydrolysis.
(9) When captive blowflies were exposed first to dog faeces containing proglottids of T. hydatigena and then to cooked meat, 100% of pigs fed on this meat became infected.
(10) The antisera against DA and TH specifically labeled the same neurons in the blowflies.
(11) In blowflies it was detected mainly in eggs and pupae.
(12) A macromolecule with high affinity for the ecdysteroid analogue ponasterone A was isolated from nuclei of larvae of the blowfly Calliphora vicina.
(13) The structure of mechanoreceptors at the base of labellar taste hairs of the blowfly Phaenicia serricata were examined in stimulated and unstimulated conditions (i.e.
(14) Bait trapping at upland sites in England and Wales, mainly at 400-700 m altitude, showed that Calliphora vomitoria L. usually outnumbered all other blowflies.
(15) RAST inhibition demonstrated immunologic cross-reactivity between the life stages of T. molitor and also between T. molitor and A. diaperinus, as well as slight cross-reactivity with blowfly.
(16) Arylphorin was purified from larvae of the blowfly Calliphora vicina and studied in its oligomeric form and after dissociation at pH 9.6 into native subunits.
(17) Freezing was lethal in the eggs, larvae, pupae and adults of the blowflies Calliphora vicina R-D. and Calliphora vomitoria (L.), but varying degrees of supercooling were found.
(18) Starting from poly(A)-containing RNA prepared from the fat body of larvae of the blowfly Calliphora vicina, we have purified an mRNA coding for the protein calliphorin, which is a major blowfly protein accounting for approximately 9% of the total poly(A)-containing mRNA activity in the fat body of 5-days-old larvae, as demonstrated by translation in vitro.
(19) In particular the contrast of the relative importance of each mechanism in each of the major ectoparasitic pests of economic importance (sheep blowflies, mosquitoes and ticks) is discussed.
(20) It was concluded that if organophosphate resistant blowfly were present, the length of protection might be dosage related and that blowfly strike in sheep was almost equally controlled by Cyromazine and Propetamphos.
Horsefly
Definition:
(n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
(n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
Example Sentences:
(1) Potential horsefly intermediate hosts collected in the enzootic area included Hybomitra rhombica osburni, H. tetrica, H. metabola, Chrysops noctifer pertinax and Atylotus incisuralis.
(2) That information together with our observations suggest that segregation of infected horses (usually defined as at least 200 yards from susceptible horses) as a control measure for EIA may not be an adequate safeguard against transmission in areas where horseflies are numerous.
(3) In 1 of 7 transmission trials, a single horsefly transmitted EIA virus from an acutely infected pony to a susceptible pony.
(4) The knowledge accumulated in the course of studies of bloodsucking dipterans: mosquitoes, horseflies, Heleidae, midges in the Urals and the adjacent territories is reviewed.
(5) (3) There is a time link between the rate of sero-conversion and the variations in activity of the horsefly population.
(6) Groups of horseflies isolated for 3, 10, or 30 minutes before refeeding transmitted EIA virus, whereas those isolated for 4 or 24 hours did not.
(7) After statistical analysis, this space-time study showed that: (1) There is a significant positive geographical correlation between the rate of incidence of BLV infection and the density of the horsefly population.
(8) Spiroplasmas have been isolated previously from a number of blood-sucking arthropods, including ticks, horseflies, and deerflies.
(9) The average number being 120-300 mosquitoes and 50 horseflies per hour, the milking qualities in the cattle decreased by 6.2%, the milk fat content by 11.8%.
(10) Seven mosquito species and 18 horsefly species were observed to be attacking the cattle.
(11) A parallel entomological study was run over the same period, using continuous trapping, in order to determine both the density and variations of horsefly (Tabanus spp.)
(12) However, this protection period was not achieved for horseflies.
(13) Data from field studies indicate that the home range or flight distance of horseflies may exceed 4 miles.
(14) In some ways, however, chirps are a Trojan horsefly, a way to sneak bugs into American diets and transform sceptics into insectivores.
(15) 13,924 mosquitoes, 75 horseflies and 60 blackflies were processed in 1973.
(16) Blood-feeding success of female horseflies, Hybomitra expollicata Pandellé and Tabanus bromius L. (Diptera: Tabanidae), was studied.
(17) Dipterous blood-sucking insects (horseflies, black flies, gnats, midges) have negative impacts on the performance of draught horses in forest enterprises.
(18) Microsporidia of the genus Ameson were recorded from larvae of horseflies of the genus Hybomitra in Karelia.