What's the difference between chipmunk and tamias?
Chipmunk
Definition:
(n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mean viremia titers and durations did not differ significantly among chipmunk age-classes.
(2) To clarify the cause of uncoupling of Ca influx through Ca channels and the contractility of the myocardium in hibernating chipmunks, the electromechanical effects of two different internal Ca store inhibitors, caffeine and ryanodine, and a cardiotonic agent, isoprenaline, were investigated in papillary muscles of hibernating animals.
(3) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(4) The chipmunks were trapped and periodically recaptured in two study areas where 59 chipmunks became infected and developed neutralizing antibody during the summer cycle of virus transmission.
(5) triseriatus feeding on chipmunk blood containing LAC virus neutralizing (N) antibodies and for Ae.
(6) Movement, home range and density of chipmunk populations were determined by trap mark and recapture techniques on grid study areas.
(7) Seven-day cycles in spontaneous activity were found in wild animals (recently trapped Norway rats, chipmunks, ground squirrels, and squirrel monkeys), but not in tame domesticated animals (laboratory Norway rats and hamsters).
(8) On the other hand, the stratum griseum intermedium of the chipmunk SC received the greatest innervation of serotonergic varicose fibers.
(9) He flew at weekends, in gliders and tandem-seat Chipmunks, with instructors who would occasionally let their students take control to try their hands at take-offs and landings.
(10) Diurnal fluctuations in serum Ca, inorganic phosphorus, Mg, and alkaline phosphatase activity and their relations to lighting and feeding schedules were investigated in nocturnal rats and diurnal asiatic chipmunks.
(11) To explore the degree of serotonergic innervation in each layer, a semi-quantitative assay of serotonin immunoreactive varicosities was conducted in the rat, chipmunk, cat, and monkey.
(12) Active antibodies neutralizing LAC virus were first detected in susceptible chipmunks in mid-July and 68 free-living and 4 sentinel animals developed antibodies during the study.
(13) The electromechanical responses to isoprenaline and a high calcium medium on cardiac muscles from nonhibernating and hibernating chipmunks were studied in the presence and the absence of ryanodine.
(14) The chipmunks developed viremias of 1-4 days duration and antibody titers were similar in intensity and duration to those reported in chipmunks infected by Ae.
(15) There were no differences in virulence and antigenic characteristics of LAC strains isolated from chipmunks compared to those from squirrels.
(16) Single unit recordings were made from the relay cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the eastern chipmunk.
(17) The mean plaque size of viruses isolated from squirrels was slightly larger than the mean plaque size of viruses isolated from chipmunks.
(18) You're also in Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel .
(19) ), now it seems more like that special time of year when grown women are encouraged to dress as anything they want, as long as it has the prefix of “sexy” or, yes, “slutty.” On one recent Halloween in New York, I spotted a sexy pumpkin, a sexy witch, a sexy chipmunk and a sexy hamburger.
(20) Chipmunk habitat was ranked for quality and populations of chipmunks.
Tamias
Definition:
(n.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
Example Sentences:
(1) In experimentally infected Tamias striatus and E. minimus, Trypanosoma tamiasi reproduced by equal binary fission in the trypo-, sphaero-, epi-, or amastigote form, mainly in lymphoid organs.
(2) n. is described from blood and organs of the eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus, and the least chipmunk, Eutamias minimus.
(3) The authors compared the contribution of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), chipmunks (Tamias striatus), and meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) to infection of vector ticks with the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgddorferi.
(4) The present immunohistochemical study by use of antisera against neurofilament protein (NFP) and S-100 protein dealt with the innervation of the upper incisors and periodontal ligament in five species of rodents including the guinea pig, hamster, Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguicularis), mouse and squirrel (Tamias sibiricus).
(5) Retinal S-antigen has been found to be localized in a specific photoreceptor cell population of squirrel (Tamias striatus) and rhesus monkey retina.
(6) Two of 3 rats (2 cotton rats, Sigmodon hispidus, and 1 roof cat, Rattus rattus) were seropositive, but 7 gophers (Citellus sp), 1 ground squirrel (Tamias sp), an opossum (Didelphis virginiana), and a domestic cat (Felis domesticus) were seronegative; however, chlamydiae were recovered from the livers and spleens of the opossum and domestic cat, both of which had been observed scavenging carcasses of turkeys dead of chlamydiosis.
(7) Based on survivalship data from Tryon and Snyder, wild chipmunks (Tamias striatus), captured, exposed to single doses of either 200 or 400 rad ionizing radiation, and subsequently returned to their natural habitat, exhibited a biphasic response in age-specific mortality rate (omega x).
(8) On the basis of light and electron microscopic observations of the cross-section, the total count of optic nerve fibers in the eastern chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus asiaticus) was estimated to be 5.65 x 10(5).
(9) White-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus or Peromyscus maniculatus), meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), and eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) were captured; and specimens from these animals were cultured for B. burgdorferi to define whether the midwestern Lyme disease area currently encompasses these large metropolitan centers.
(10) Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, was isolated from the blood, kidneys, spleens, eyes, or livers of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) (n = 19 of 22) and from the blood, kidneys, or spleens of eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) (n = 2 of 2) captured at three foci for Lyme disease in eastern Connecticut.
(11) Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus L.) were placed in Plexiglas cages with 0, 2, 5, 10, or 20 female Aedes triseriatus Say mosquitoes for 2 h. Previously published studies demonstrated little effective mosquito defensive behavior because of pause behavior by the chipmunks.
(12) Retinal inputs and their laminar distributions in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd) of the eastern chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus asiaticus) were studied using histological and microelectrode recording techniques.
(13) All samples from short-tailed field mice (Microtus pennsylvanicus), squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), chipmunks (Tamias striatus), meadow jumping mice (Zapus hudsonius) and starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) were seronegative.
(14) La Crosse (LAC) virus was isolated from the blood of seven chipmunks (Tamias striatus) captured during the summer of 1970 in southwestern Wisconsin.
(15) Ventilation was measured across a range of O2 consumption rates in four sciurid rodents: Tamias minimus (47 g), Spermophilus lateralis (189 g), S. beecheyi (531 g), and Marmota flaviventris juveniles (1054 g) and adults (2989 g).
(16) Viremia and antibody responses to La Crosse (LAC) virus were determined for juvenile, subadult and adult chipmunks (Tamias striatus).
(17) White-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and chipmunks (Tamias striatus) were important hosts for immature ticks.
(18) The superfacial structures of the tongues in the Manchurian Chipmunk, Tamias sibiricus asiaticus, were observed by scanning electron microscope.
(19) Biological transmission of LAC virus from infected red foxes to chipmunks (Tamias striatus) was accomplished by Ae.
(20) Six isolates of La Crosse (LAC) virus were obtained from sentinel gray squirrels (Sciuris carolinensis) and four from sentinel chipmunks (Tamias striatus) in an endemic area.