(n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk samples were from stomachs of 27 nursing cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) within 5 min after cessation of nursing.
(2) To analyse the respective roles of the different segments of these proteins, we constructed a set of in-frame deletion and insertion mutations in the E2 coding sequences of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV1) and cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV).
(3) The former was known to readily attach to cottontail rabbit epithelial cells (Sf1Ep) and to survive in the virulent state for up to 21 days.
(4) Twenty four percent of 2,643 cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) collected in Virginia from 1949-1975 showed evidence of Cuterebra parasitism.
(5) The cottontail rabbit herpesvirus is presently classified in subgroup A of the herpesviruses, whereas the virus is strongly cell associated and belongs in subgroup B.
(6) Papilloma induced by the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) progress at a high frequency to cancers.
(7) Virus-specific neutralization was demonstrated by the ability of an HPV-11-specific polyclonal antiserum to neutralize HPV-11 infectivity and not bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV-1) or cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) infectivity.
(8) Furthermore, the results indicate that the eastern cottontail rabbit may be an important host for TVT virus in Iowa.
(9) The results suggest that the phenogroups represent products of multiple allelic genes for the constant region of cottontail rabbit kappa light chain.
(10) I. dentatus Marx on eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus (Allen), and I. marxi Banks on gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, were least abundant (less than 2% collectively).
(11) Cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) genomic sequences coding for virus early functions were introduced into a retroviral vector in order to produce cDNAs of the viral early region.
(12) Chlamydia psittaci (strain M56, the agent of epizootic chlamydiosis of muskrats and hares) was highly lethal for the snowshoe hare (Lepus americans) following intravenous inoculation, whereas the agent was much less virulent for cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) and albino domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
(13) The club will feature a Cottontail Lounge "where the Bunnies come out to play"; a bar run by Salvatore Calabrese, "the world's leading cocktail expert"; "Gentlemen's Tonic", which "affords the modern man a traditional barbershop"; as well as a sports bar, and a smoking terrace.
(14) No cottontails had antibodies to Bacillus piliformis, the etiologic agent of Tyzzer's disease.
(15) The level of viral protein expression in these cell lines was generally low, and a comparison of the abundance of virus-specific mRNA showed that cell lines contained 20 to 50 times less mRNA than a cottontail rabbit papilloma.
(16) The genome structure of a herpesvirus isolated from primary cultures of kidney cells from the cottontail rabbit Sylvilagus floridanus was elucidated by using electron microscopy and restriction enzyme analysis.
(17) A 62-year-old woman developed bubonic plague with an epitrochlear bubo one to two days after skinning two cottontail rabbits.
(18) Forty New Zealand white rabbits were inoculated with cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) at 2 sites on the dorsal skin.
(19) Prevalence of M. pectinata americana in cottontail rabbits was significantly greater in untreated control pastures than herbicide treated pastures in winter, while prevalence of T. pisiformis was significantly greater in burned than unburned pastures.
(20) New Zealand White rabbits received inoculations of cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) virions of two dilutions at four sites total on the dorsum.
Snowshoe
Definition:
(n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of several species of animals tested for susceptibility to this spirochete, only the snowshoe hare gave evidence of infection.
(2) 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.
(3) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
(4) This study affirms the endemic presence of Powassan and snowshoe hare virus and further delineates the scope of St. Louis encephalitis activity in Ontario.
(5) Seroprevalence to Jamestown Canyon and snowshoe hare viruses was associated with increasing age.
(6) Mosquito-borne arboviruses are prevalent throughout subarctic regions of Canada and Alaska, principally in the boreal forest extending between latitudes 53 and 66 degrees N, but they have been identified in tundra regions as far north as 70 degrees N. All mosquito-borne agents have been bunyaviruses, comprising principally the snowshoe hare subtype of California encephalitis (CE) virus, but also Northway virus.
(7) Virulence appeared to be very host specific in that only strain M56 among the six chlamydiae tested was highly lethal for the snowshoe hare.
(8) In contrast, infection with snowshoe hare virus, a bunyavirus, induced the synthesis of snowshoe hare virus RNA in both A. Ablpictus cells 3 days after Sindbis virus infection and previously uninfected mosquito cells.
(9) Five species of helminths were monitored in a population of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) near Rochester, Alberta, during 1961-1977.
(10) Significant group (p less than .001) and time (p less than .001; pre vs. post) differences were found in snowshoe time, but a significant interaction was not found.
(11) For snowshoeing or building a snowman you don’t need that much snow, whereas if you are a ski manager you have to groom the rough mountain slopes.
(12) Replication of a subarctic Bunyavirus, California encephalitis (snowshoe hare subtype), was detected in salivary glands and thoraces of wild-caught Aedes communis mosquitoes from the Yokon Territory, after intrathoracic inoculation with 0.1 to 100 mouse LD50 virus, and incubation for 7 to 21 days throughout their viable temperature range of 0 to 23 degrees C. Immunoperoxidase staining confirmed that viral replication occurred in the cytoplasm of acinar cells of salivary glands, both by ligh microscopy and electron microscopy.
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(14) The RNA genomes of prototypes trivittatus (TVT), snowshoe hare (SSH), Tahyna (TAH), and Lumbo (a variety of TAH) viruses of the California encephalitis (CE) serogroup, and Guaroa of the Bunyamwera serogroup also consist of three RNA species, each with unique and distinguishable nucleotide sequences which bear little resemblance to those of the LAC virus isolates.
(15) Chlamydia psittaci (strain M56, the agent of epizootic chlamydiosis of muskrats and hares) was highly lethal for the snowshoe hare (Lepus americans) following intravenous inoculation, whereas the agent was much less virulent for cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) and albino domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
(16) Tissue titres of strain M56 were generally higher after 96 hr in the snowshoe hare than in tissues of the other lagomorphs.
(17) Agents lethal to chicken embryos and mice were isolated from the blood and spleen of 2 muskrats and 2 snowshoe hares which died during the cataclysmic die-off of 1961 in Central Saskatchewan.
(18) Low-passage field strains of snowshoe hare (SSH) virus (Bunyaviridae), the prototype SSH virus (originally isolated in Montana), and La Crosse (LAC) virus were compared serologically by plaque-reduction neutralization (PRNT) and molecularly by oligonucleotide fingerprinting (ONF).
(19) Recombinant baculoviruses have been constructed that express the two snowshoe hare (SSH) bunyavirus proteins coded in overlapping reading frames of the SSH S viral-complementary RNA species (namely the nucleoprotein, N, and the nonstructural protein, NSS).
(20) Only 2 of 177 rodents from the Sierra Nevada had antibodies to Northway virus; none had antibodies to Jamestown Canyon or snowshoe hare viruses.