(n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
(n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparison is made between the chiton myoglobins and other similar O2-binding proteins.
(2) Each of the three minerals forms a discrete microarchitectural unit of the chiton denticles.
(3) Contrary to the widely accepted view that chiton sperm lack acrosomes and that fertilization in this group occurs via a micropyle, we demonstrate here that fertilization in Tonicella lineata occurs by acrosome-mediated sperm-egg fusion.
(4) X-ray diffraction patterns show that the mature denticles of three extant chiton species are composed of the mineral lepidocrocite and an apatite mineral, probably francolite, in addition to magnetite.
(5) Although the rate constants associated with the reactions of individual dimer and monomer molecular species are very different, the two species of chiton investigated show remarkably similar properties when compared with each other.
(6) A possible circaseptennian rhythm is only suspected in the data from the ochre star (P = 0.14); it is rigorously described for the purple sea urchin (P less than 0.001) and also detected in the black chiton (P = 0.029) in time series covering 9.5 years, from September 1953 to April 1963 for the purple sea urchin and from January 1957 to September 1966 for the black chiton.
(7) The subunit structure and solution conformation of the hemocyanin of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata were investigated by light-scattering, ultracentrifugation, viscosity, absorbance, and circular dichroism methods.
(8) Cephalopod and chiton hemocyanins consist of single decameric particles, while gastropods have hemocyanins organized of di-decamers or higher assemblies.
(9) The subunit dissociation of the hemocyanins from five members of the Polyplacophora families, Acanthochitonidae, Callistoplacidae, Chitonidae, Ischnochitonidae and Mopalidae, represented by the chitons Cryptochiton stelleri, Nutallina fluxa, Acanthopleura granulata, Stenoplax conspicua and Mopalia mucosa, respectively, have been investigated by light-scattering molecular-weight and ultracentrifugation methods, using the hydrophobic reagents of the urea series and the Hofmeister salt series as probes of the contact areas of the hemocyanin subunits.
(10) Although hemocyanins have been reported in chitons, gastropods, and cephalopods, they have not been observed in the Class Bivalvia.
(11) Electron microscopy of the subradular organ of the chiton Lepidochitona cinereus (L) reveals at least three cell types, microvillous, ciliated and mucus-secreting, situated in a single epithelium.
(12) An increase and decrease in staining intensity subsequent to treatment with anti-LM4b and anti-LM2, respectively, was observed in digestive gland microsomes from BNF-treated chiton.
(13) Yoldia thraciaeformis and A. castrensis hemocyanins chromatograph on Sepharose 4B gel close to gastropod hemocyanin (Mr = 9 x 10(6] rather than chiton hemocyanin (Mr = 4 x 10(6].
(14) The shells of the chitons Lepidochitona cinereus, Sypharochiton pelliserpentis, Amaurochiton glaucus and Onithochiton neglectus were examined by scanning electron microscopy.
(15) The form of the path of attracted chiton sperm is like that observed during chemotaxis of the sperm of the hydroid Tubularia and the tunicate Ciona and resembles the behavior of Ciona sperm in that there is no increase in velocity as the cells move up the gradient.
(16) This is the first indication that lepidocrocite is precipitated by marine organisms and an apatite mineral by chitons.
(17) Observations of sperm behavior in the vicinity of gradients of egg-water or alcohol extracts of whole freshly-spawned eggs of several chitons reveal what appear to be directed movements of sperm up the gradient, resulting in the aggregation of motile sperm at the gradient source.
(18) Data series from the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus), a mollusk, the black chiton (Katharina tunicata), and the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), exhibiting circannual periods of 368, 361, and 365 days, have relatively tight 95% limits of 356-387, 356-367, and 359-371 days, respectively, when scrutinized by nonlinear least-squares rhythmometry.
(19) Newly metamorphosed chitons superficially resemble adult animals, but they lack the adult girdle ornaments, shell sculpture, and coloration.
(20) A method has been devised for isolating the calcium biomineral from the iron biominerals and organic components present in the major lateral teeth of the chiton Acanthopleura hirtosa.
Toga
Definition:
(n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.
Example Sentences:
(1) Semliki Forest virus, an enveloped toga virus, was used as a model virus to create optimal treatment conditions.
(2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(3) EICAR is a candidate antiviral drug for the treatment of pox-, toga-, arena-, reo-, orthomyxo, and paramyxovirus infections.
(4) 3'-Fluoro-3'-deoxyadenosine was active against a broad range of viruses, encompassing both DNA viruses [pox (vaccinia)], single-stranded (+) RNA viruses [picorna (polio, Coxsackie B), toga (sindbis, Semliki Forest)] and double-stranded RNA viruses (reo).
(5) There were no Mediterranean islands, no togas, no Stevie Wonder and no Leonardo DiCaprio.
(6) The music and themes may have changed but his voice is still the androgynous blend of gospel, art-rock and soul that's bewitched collaborators as diverse as Hercules And Love Affair and the London Symphony Orchestra, who played two extraordinary Barbican concerts with him last year at which Antony wore a Roman toga ("It was actually a sandwich wrap") and covered Beyoncé's Crazy In Love, because "she's gorgeous".
(7) Inactivation by UV occurred more rapidly than with herpes, toga and rhabdoviruses.
(8) Based on these results it can be assumed that under natural conditions with very low virus content of some particles the labile viruses such as Toga, Herpes, Rhabdo and pH labile Picorna remain infectious in water for some days.
(9) Enveloped Toga virus particles were demonstrated by means of an electron microscopy in the brain tissues of a 3-year-old girl with acute encephalitis.
(10) There, for two and a half hours, I must wear nothing but flip-flops, and carry only a toga and an instruction card.
(11) Most of the report is devoted to the results of serological survey conducted in a human population, in several domestic birds and mammals from some districts of Romania, as well as in migratory birds from the Danube delta, with regards to the incidence of some Toga-, Bunya- and Reoviruses.
(12) His muscles ripple beneath the diaphanous folds of the toga.
(13) The mutant, designated 3T6-VrB2, displays a high degree of resistance to infection by members of the toga-, rhabdo- and picornavirus classes.
(14) Toga virus-like particles (typically 60-70 nm: enveloped with small surface spikes) were detected in the native hepatectomy specimens in 7 of 18 patients grafted for acute liver failure attributed to sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis and in 2 patients grafted for fulminant hepatitis attributed to anti-epileptic drug hepatotoxicity.
(15) Knowledge of the mechanism of this effect is derived from studies employing both DNA (especially vaccinia virus and SV40) and RNA-viruses (especially picorna-, toga-, rhabdo-, reo- and retroviruses).
(16) A purified toga-alphavirus, Getah (GET), showed optimal hemolytic activity for one-day-old chick red blood cells when incubated at 37 C for 120 min at pH 6.2.
(17) Arboviruses, from the Toga group, were grown in the AA-MC culture.
(18) In early 1988, a small (60 nm), single-stranded RNA-virus (toga- or flaviviridae), probably causing both sporadic and parentally transmitted NANBH was isolated, partially cloned by a lambda gt 11 expression vector and named hepatitis C virus (HCV) by Choo, Houghton et al.
(19) Gandharan art used motifs borrowed from classical Roman art, with its vine scrolls, cherubs and centaurs, but its principal icon was a handsome, languid, meditating Buddha, dressed in a Greek toga.
(20) Sindbis (SINV) and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), members of the families Toga- and Rhabdoviridae, respectively, were chosen as indicator agents.