What's the difference between bristle and chaetotaxy?

Bristle


Definition:

  • (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
  • (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
  • (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
  • (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
  • (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
  • (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
  • (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
  • (2) Selection limits for scutellar bristles in lines M and M2 were equal to or greater than the most extreme reported in the literature.-The probit span of the canalised 4 bristle class decreased in each selection line as the mean scutellar bristle number increased, and increased again in the relaxed lines as the mean bristle number decreased.
  • (3) "Corncob" configurations consisting of filamentous bacteria surrounded by Gram-positive cocci, and "bristle brush" formations comprising corncobs surrounded by long rods were observed in the superficial layer of the plaque.
  • (4) However, identification of the methionine bristle domain suggests that chloroplast HSPs also have unique functions or substrates within the special environment of the chloroplast or other plastids.
  • (5) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
  • (6) Test variables were time in use, brush design (e.g., geometry and size of the brush head), and bristle composition.
  • (7) The diameter of the bristles vary between 0.7 mm at the base of the bristle to 0.25 mm in the near end of the bristle.
  • (8) According to random selection, subjects' teeth were brushed by trained personnel with either the curved bristle or the conventional toothbrush.
  • (9) Some people, however, still bristle at the idea of sexuality on a spectrum.
  • (10) The S character of Drosophila simulans, the absence or malformation or both of bristles and other cuticular structures, was described by Comendador (Drosophila Inf.
  • (11) Results are presented of 135 generations of selection for high scutellar bristle number in two lines M and M3 derived from the same original mating of one female with 5 bristles by one male with 4 bristles, the latter being the wild-type canalised phenotype.
  • (12) The lateral walls of these subunits form regularly spaced bristles or pegs which extend inwards from the trilaminar membrane for a distance of 13-15 nm.
  • (13) Afterwards, while the phagocytic ability decreases, the phagocytic cups disappear, and all the cells become bristled with many thin filopods.
  • (14) It reminded me to look at the sky, absorb the air, and listen to the wind that bristles as it hurries by.
  • (15) In each generation, offspring of the two groups were retained in their group or transferred to the other group, depending on the number of their bristles.
  • (16) The homozygous and heterozygous effects of the inserts on viability and abdominal and sternopleural bristle number were ascertained by comparing the chromosome lines with inserts to insert-free control lines of the inbred host strain.
  • (17) Lawrence is said to bristle at the now-cliched description of her as "dignified".
  • (18) Our results indicate that emc plays an essential early role in defining territories of bristle-forming potential.
  • (19) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
  • (20) When Grayson remarks to the men he meets that his transvestism allows him enough distance from maleness to view it as an observer, rather than bristle they nod, quietly ponder for a moment and then step back themselves, apparently accepting that maleness is such a weird contrivance that to look at it with critical eyes is Not Even A Thing.

Chaetotaxy


Definition:

  • (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The structure of scutum, organs of gnathosoma and coxae, chaetotaxy of idiosoma and gnathosoma were used for differential diagnosis.
  • (2) A wide range of structures was used for species identification as follows: peculiarities of scutum, peritreme, anal valve, organs of gnathosoma, chaetotaxy and morphometrical characteristics and ratios.
  • (3) Two other characters of tergal chaetotaxy, of probable taxonomic potential, are also described.
  • (4) The new species is most similar to Tinaminyssus melloi (Castro) 1948 and T. turturi (Fain) 1962, but differs in (1) possessing only 5 pairs of ventral opisthosomal setae, (2) presence of 3 pairs of enlarged setae on the dorsal opisthosoma at the posterolateral margin of the podosomal plate (1 pair) and at the lateral margins of the opisthosomal plate (2 pairs), (3) elongate shape and larger size of the poststigmatic plates, and (4) chaetotaxy and solenidiotaxy of the legs, especially tarsus I with a cluster of 4 solenida and 1 club-shaped solenidion on the apex of the dorsum.
  • (5) The cercaria is described, its chaetotaxy confirms the validity of species D. hospes.
  • (6) The distribution of ciliated cells and the oncomiracidium chaetotaxy in Ancyrocephalus paradoxus Creplin, 1839 (Ancyrocephalidae) parasite of Sander lucioperca (Teleostean, Percidae) are described for the first time as well as the larval ciliated cells in Dactylogyrus extensus (Dactylogyridae) parasite of Cyprinus carpio.
  • (7) In the same way, miracidial and redial chaetotaxy are used n taxonomy.
  • (8) The study of their number and position; the chaetotaxy is used in systematics and allows very accurate conclusions in specific or infraspecific identifications and in all high taxonomical levels: family, sub-order, super-order.
  • (9) The cercarial chaetotaxy of the Gastrodiscidae is quite different from those of Paramphistomoidea and Diplodiscidae.
  • (10) Differences of probable generic significance in leg and palpal chaetotaxy are described for the three species mentioned and for Halarachne Allman 1847.
  • (11) Phylogenetic relationships among 16 larger-sized myobiid genera, including the 3 new ones, are deduced based primarily on the structure of female genitalia and secondarily on the formation of legs and chaetotaxy of idiosoma and legs.
  • (12) Leg and palpal chaetotaxy of all instars of Pneumonyssus simicola, Banks 1901 is compared with that of the two Orthohalarachne species and with that characteristic of free-living dermanyssids.
  • (13) Data obtained with the chaetotaxy of miracidia of the Kara strain were compatible with those obtained with african strains by other authors.
  • (14) Cercarial chaetotaxy is given for every batch and compared with that of other species described as E. audyi, E. lindoense and E. caproni; discriminating features are discussed.
  • (15) As a result it appears that an unitary pattern occurs in the ciliated cell arrangement and chaetotaxy in the larvae of Ancyrocephalus paradoxus, Ergenstrema mugilis and Dactylogyrus extensus.
  • (16) The chaetotaxy of the cercariae of human or simian strains of Schistosoma mansoni, a fluke producing the intestinal bilharziasis displays a characteristic difference from that of cercariae of the same parasite adapted to Mouse or wild Rat.
  • (17) In the study of the cercaria of Haplorchis pumilio, comparison with the few Opisthorchioidea cercarial sensory organs already known has enabled the authors to characterise the chaetotaxy for this superfamily.
  • (18) The chaetotaxy of 84 samples or isolates of Schistosoma spp.
  • (19) This species is closely related to A. cooleyi Kohls & Hoogstraal, a parasite of cliff swallows, Hirundo pyrrhonota Vieillot, but is easily distinguished by hypostome dentition and roof of Haller's organ in all stages and chaetotaxy of the larvae.
  • (20) The chaetotaxy of the cercaria differs from that of other European species of Paramphistomum and particularly from P. leydeni and P. daubneyi both species which occur in Vendée.

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