(n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
(n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(2) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(3) The second gene lies within an intron of the purine gene and encodes a cuticle protein.
(4) In vitro the epidermis synthesized and secreted both forms into both the cuticle and the medium.
(5) The morphology of the adult female cuticle is discussed.
(6) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
(7) Between the cuticle and dermal collagen there are granular deposits which might be immune complexes involving the collagenous component of cuticle.
(8) Eisenia epidermis does not recordably synthesize the cuticle until after wounding (first eight segments removed).
(9) Cuticle morphology identifies two types of sensilla trichodea, two types of sensilla basiconica and one type of sensillum coeloconicum.
(10) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(11) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
(12) On dark-adaptation of the 11-day adult eye, the rhabdomers move towards the cuticle.
(13) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(14) Thus, during larval growth the cuticle remains flexible and extensible.
(15) C3 conversion products were detected on larval cuticles by eosinophil adherence and by immunofluorescence with C3c antiserum.
(16) Both genes encode 5.5-kilobase mRNAs, similar in size to the mammalian and Drosophila type IV collagen gene transcripts but much larger than the cuticle collagen transcripts of C. elegans.
(17) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(18) The antibodies, which were produced in the course of T. spiralis infection in rats, specifically bound to the inner layers of the body cuticle and the cuticle of the hindgut, but not to the cuticle of the esophagus.
(19) Autonomous expression of Met was found both in abdominal cuticle as well as in external male genitalia.
(20) However, late larval worms that expressed the adult cuticle did not express blisters either.
Teneral
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of tsetse homogenates into teneral G. m. morsitans prior to exposure to trypanosome-infected feed increased T. b. brucei infections in the flies significantly.
(2) Teneral male Glossina morsitans centralis, G. austeni, G. palpalis palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G. fuscipes fuscipes, G. tachinoides and G. brevipalpis were fed on the flanks of Boran calves infected with Trypanosoma vivax stock ILRAD 2241 isolated from a cow in Likoni, Kenya; stock ILRAD 2337 isolated from a cow in Galana, Kenya; stock ILRAD 1392 isolated from a cow in Nigeria; or, stock EATRO 1721 isolated from G. m. submorsitans in Nigeria.
(3) There was little variation in the susceptibility of teneral male and female flies, young fed flies, and fed stud males with all the compounds tested (dieldrin, resmethrin, tetrachlorvinphos, bromophos, and propoxur) and increased tolerance in old fed pregnant flies occurred only with dieldrin and resmethrin.
(4) Teneral G. morsitans centralis were fed on a goat infected with T. vivax IL 1392 and dissected 1-2 h after feeding.
(5) The likely role of rickettsia-like organisms (RLO) in potentiating teneral susceptibility to midgut infection is discussed.
(6) The in-vitro biosynthesis of [12-3H] juvenile hormone (JH) III by exposed corpora allata (CA) of teneral, sugar-fed, and blood-fed female Lutzomyia anthophora (Addis) was followed by incubating the CA for 4 h with [12-3H]methyl farnesoate.
(7) Interrupted feedings of teneral, laboratory-reared Glossina morsitans morsitans were used to study mechanical transmission of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense.
(8) Teneral G. m. morsitans susceptible to trypanosome infection had exposed carbohydrate residues recognised by APA lectin, but these residues were absent in a line of this species refractory to trypanosome infection.
(9) Conversely, access to sucrose for a few days led to a pronounced glycogenesis (up to 509%) and lipogenesis (up to 450% of the teneral values), depending on the species.
(10) Daily survivorship of blood-fed females was estimated to be 0.84 with a gonotrophic cycle length of 5 d. Daily survivorship for unfed females was estimated to be 0.86 with a gonotrophic cycle length of 7 d. The 2-d difference in gonotrophic cycle lengths was interpreted as the duration of the teneral period during which newly emerged females underwent maturation and mating before seeking hosts.
(11) Teneral reserves were isometric with body size, were considerably lower than previously reported for Aedes aegypti (L.) and were sexually dimorphic with respect to reserves and body size, all being slightly reduced in males.
(12) Teneral flies of Glossina morsitans morsitans were fed on mice infected with cloned and uncloned derivatives of three recent field isolates of Trypanosoma (Nannomonas) congolense.
(13) Increasing the period of starvation before infection increased the susceptibility to trypanosome infection of non-teneral flies.
(14) Five hundred and sixty teneral male Glossina morsitans centralis were fed, at the height of parasitaemia, on a goat infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei.
(15) Teneral Glossina morsitans centralis, G. austeni, G. palpalis palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G. fuscipes fuscipes, G. tachinoides and G. brevipalpis from laboratory-bred colonies, were allowed to feed simultaneously for 34 days on the flanks of ten goats infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei isolated in Tanzania or in Nigeria, and then the tsetse were dissected.
(16) During moulting, the agranular alveoli of the immatures degenerate and new ones are formed which are apparently already functional in teneral nymphs and adults.
(17) quadrimaculatus Say, total protein, lipid, and carbohydrate present at eclosion, after feeding on sucrose, and after extreme starvation were quantified to study the effect of teneral and maximal reserves on subsequent fecundity and to judge the extent of reserve mobilization and the minimal irreducible amounts required for survival.
(18) The addition of the specific midgut lectin inhibitor D-glucosamine to the infective feed of non-teneral flies increased midgut infection rates to levels comparable with those achieved in teneral flies.
(19) In contrast, RLOs occurred in very much lower numbers within the midgut cells of nonteneral G. austeni, G. p. palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G.f. fuscipes and G. tachinoides; were not seen in every specimen, and were rarely observed in the midgut cells of teneral testse.
(20) Exposure of wild non-teneral G.f. fuscipes, G. pallidipes, G. brevipalpis, and 3 day old G.m.