(a.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ectopic expression assay in Drosophila embryos was used to investigate the roles of pair-rule segmentation genes in the spatial regulation of the segment-polarity gene, engrailed (en).
(2) Engrailed has been suggested to play an important role during development by controlling position-specific characteristics in the CNS of the early embryo.
(3) The engrailed gene is required during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster for normal segmental development and for differentiation of posterior compartments.
(4) Genetic analysis in Drosophila has shown that engrailed (en) plays an important role in segmentation and neurogenesis.
(5) The first pattern of expression is in alternating segments followed by expression in every segment, suggesting that engrailed may be responding to pair-rule segmentation gene products.
(6) By contrast, the homeo box within the engrailed gene diverges substantially and, unlike the other homeo boxes, is interrupted by an intervening sequence.
(7) These results indicate that 1) Engrailed-2 expression is suppressed in the most ventral neural tube owing to induction of the floor plate by the notochord, and 2) that the presence of an underlying notochord is not required for correct rostrocaudal expression, suggesting that multiple pathways act in the patterning of the rudiment of the central nervous system.
(8) The crystal structure of a complex containing the engrailed homeodomain and a duplex DNA site has been determined at 2.8 A resolution and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 24.4%.
(9) This early requirement for engrailed does not appear to be a maternal function, and only genetically engrailed embryos displayed these precellular phenotypes.
(10) No other transcribed regions were found up to 16 kb downstream and 48 kb upstream of the engrailed transcription unit, the portion of the genome to which engrailed mutations have been mapped.
(11) Comparison of amino acid sequences between the entire Xenopus En-2 and the Drosophila engrailed proteins confirms conservation of sequences inside as well as proximal to the homeobox and reveals a region of similarity towards the N terminus.
(12) The Drosophila engrailed gene product (En) is a homeodomain-containing protein that contributes to segmental patterning.
(13) These results are discussed in the context of an autoregulatory model for engrailed regulation.
(14) hh expression in epidermal cells is confined to the posterior compartments and coincides precisely with that of engrailed (en).
(15) An enzyme system that accurately initiates transcription of the engrailed gene has been prepared from Drosophila embryos.
(16) We have examples of patches of hairy cells (where we monitor the effect on fushi tarazu (ftz) expression), even-skipped (monitoring ftz) and ftz (monitoring engrailed and Ultrabithorax).
(17) By examining embryonic expression of the mouse engrailed (En) genes, from 8.0 to 9.5 days postcoitum, we demonstrate that Wnt-1 primarily regulates midbrain development.
(18) This gene, which encodes a transmembrane protein, is initially expressed in a generalized way at blastoderm, but later stops being transcribed in cells expressing the engrailed gene, and even later in cells in the middle of the parasegment.
(19) Autoregulation graduates to wingless independence, but is transient, and is superseded by an engrailed-independent mode of maintenance.
(20) It appears to control morphogenesis by regulating the expression of the segmentation gene engrailed (en), and by autoregulating its own expression (M. Frasch and M.L., in preparation).
Saltire
Definition:
(v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winner of the Saltire prize will have to generate 100 gigawatt hours over a two-year period, not 100GW
(2) Milne and his wife Moira live in a former coastguard’s station on the highest point overlooking Trump’s course, which now has the Mexican flag fluttering alongside his Scottish saltire flag.
(3) "A few saltires," as Salmond said after waving one around at Wimbledon, so as to own the Murray victory, "doesn't really harm at all."
(4) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
(5) It confirms that the saltire will continue to serve as the national flag of Scotland and that the choice of national anthem will be made by the Scottish parliament.
(6) And protected behind a privacy screen, four Lib Dem workers stoically continued working away on their campaign, as scores of raucous SNP supporters, their saltires, SNP placards and balloons above their heads, greeted Sturgeon’s arrival.
(7) In the ballroom, couples at a lunchtime tea dance swirl around an interior decked with miniature saltires – and on 30 November, St Andrew's Day will be celebrated with the help of the association's pipe band, a "Scottish disco", and one Gerry Trew, "with his tribute to Rod Stewart".
(8) The first minister claims that he was the first to recognise that the Pentland Firth could be the Saudi Arabia of tidal energy, but it is increasingly clear that his Saltire prize is becoming the Millennium Dome of marine energy."
(9) This picture shows a discoloured, ragged Ineos flag flying behind the Scottish Saltire: Photograph: Sean Farrell A second look at a sign for the Grangemouth Business Centre shows that "BP" has been covered up with white tape.
(10) But hold on to your hats and your seat-backs, your Union Jacks and Saltires.
(11) As the journalist Iain Macwhirter writes in an alarm-bell-ringing essay published this week by the Saltire Society , "Scotland has a national political system, but is in danger of losing a national media."
(12) We heard from Catalans seeking a secession vote on what they think about Scotland’s own independence vote , and plenty of Saltires found their way to the streets of Barcelona.
(13) The saltired, heather-dusted frock coat has already been tailored, and awaits your beloved, skeletal frame.
(14) No doubt a thistle or a Saltire will be on the shortlist.
(15) The announcement of the Saltire prize has brought huge international publicity," he said.
(16) Writing for the Guardian , as the independence movement prepares to mark a year to go before the referendum, on 18 September 2014, Bell said: "The campaigns to date have been a tedious parade of union jacks versus saltires, of pop identity about caring Scots versus heartless Tories."
(17) In fact it looks like more of the same – but under the saltire.
(18) It is striking that the referendum has turned out not to be about certain things: Braveheart , kilts, the saltire , hating Sassenachs , Rabbie Burns, Renton’s rant in Trainspotting about the Scots allowing themselves to be “ colonised by wankers ”.
(19) The saltire, perhaps with a wee silhouette of Holyrood behind it, could be a kitemark to denote the highest band of democratic excellence.
(20) The Saltire prize has been endorsed by National Geographic, but opposition parties today dismissed it as a publicity-stunt, a view privately shared by some senior renewables industry figures.