(n.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.
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Quagga
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(n.) A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.
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(1) Of all the species, the Quagga is the top public enemy, Aldridge said.
(2) The Quagga mussel ( Dreissena rostriformis bugensis ), which was found in the river Wraysbury on 1 October and can cover boat hulls and smother native mussels to death, is just one of a group of freshwater species that has been spreading westward from the Ponto-Caspian region in south-east Europe in recent years and which risk causing a “meltdown” as they invade Britain.
(3) When the rain stops, I wander on down the street and find Quagga , an antiquarian bookshop with an impressive collection of Africana.
(4) From an economic perspective, Quagga are a real threat because they block water pipes in irrigation systems, power plants and water plants, and they can make boats more inefficient,” Aldridge said.
(5) The hypothesis that the closest relative of the quagga is the domestic horse receives no support from these data.
(6) Postmortem changes in quagga DNA may account for the two coding substitutions between the quagga and plains zebra sequences.
(7) Photograph: University of Cambridge The study warns that the first wave of invaders, including the Quagga, are likely to act as a beachhead for further invaders from the Ponto-Caspian region, aiding their establishment.
(8) I suspect the arrival of the Quagga, and its potential impacts and facilitation [for further invaders], shows we’re at the start of a very slippery slope.
(9) He added that it was not too late to contain Quagga, but it was inevitable that all the invaders would eventually land in the UK unless action was taken.
(10) The impact from the Quagga mussel is really serious, it’s the species we least wanted in the UK.
(11) Where we’ve got Quagga at the moment [at Wraysbury], there are populations of a vulnerable river mussel known as the depressed river mussel, which is about to get even more depressed.” Quagga can filter out blue-green algae, leading to more light reaching the bottom of rivers and more plants growing that can clog pipelines and waterways.
(12) The extinct quagga and plains zebra sequences are identical at all silent sites, whereas the horse sequence differs from both of them by 11 silent substitutions.
(13) Sequences are reported for portions of two mitochondrial genes from a domestic horse and a plains zebra and compared to those published for a quagga and a mountain zebra.
(14) It has been debated whether the extinct quagga was a distinct fourth species of African zebra or whether it was merely the southern variant of the Plains zebra (Equus burchelli).
(15) Using a radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique, we have shown that proteins remaining in quagga skins from museums are much more similar to serum proteins of the Plains zebra than to those of the other two extant zebras.