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Genera


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See Genus.
  • (pl. ) of Genus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The degree of infection and incidence of different genera covering the same period were identical in both series.
  • (2) Minimum inhibitory concentrations for these four antibiotics have been determined against 393 bacterial strains (13 species from eight genera) isolated from clinical materialKanamycin was the least active, 89% of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains being resistant.
  • (3) Members of the genera Rickettsia, Coxiella and Rochalimaea show considerable diversity in host cell range (in vivo vs. in vitro), kind of association with host cell (pericellular, intracellular), mode of entry, interactions with various host cell membranes, intracellular localization (intraphagosomal, free in cytoplasm, intranuclear), adaptation to preferred microhabitat (e.g., optimal pH for enzymes), details of growth cycle, mechanisms of host cell damage.
  • (4) Species of the genera Saccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Debaryomyces and Schwanniomyces were compared from their extent of divergence in three regions from small (18S) and large (25S) subunit ribosomal RNAs comprising a total of 900 nucleotides.
  • (5) This study reports on the comparative in vitro activity of norfloxacin and ten topical antibiotics (nalidixic acid, polymyxin B, colistin, bacitracin, chloramphenicol, sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, erythromycin, gentamicin, and tobramycin) against 203 pathogenic eye isolates of 17 genera (37 species).
  • (6) The 192 clinical isolates used in this study included 20 species of the genera Candida, Cryptoccoccus, Saccharomyces, Torulopsis, Trichosporon, Rhodotorula, and Geotrichum.
  • (7) The system was found to be present in representatives of genera that are characteristically facultative anaerobes, but the system was absent in members of those genera that are strictly aerobic.
  • (8) The results of the bacteriological examination of the body surface of A. lumbricoides yielded many genera of bacterial organisms.
  • (9) While members of the genera Actinomyces and Streptococcus may not be directly involved in the microbial progression, these species do appear to be essential to the construction of the network of microbial species that comprise both the subgingival plaque matrix.
  • (10) The green pigments from the fungi of the genera Trichoderma and Penicillium were partially extracted with formic acid.
  • (11) VVA was not detected as a line of complete identity in some 20 other Vibrio species or in 7 other bacterial genera.
  • (12) Bacterial genera in the GAC effluents and in the GAC units themselves were similar to those found in the raw water and in the sand beds.
  • (13) 1966.-Metabolically labeled smooth Escherichia coli lost between 10 and 90% of P(32), compared with control suspensions, when suspended for 60 min in normal serum at 37 C. Similar results were obtained with several other genera of Enterobacteriaceae.
  • (14) Motile, anaerobic gram-negative bacilli belonging to the genera Butyrivibrio, Succinimonas, Succinivibrio, Anaerovibrio, Wolinella, Campylobacter, Desulfovibrio, Selenomonas, and Anaerobiospirillum are being recognized in clinical specimens with increasing frequency.
  • (15) Poly(glycerophosphate) lipoteichoic acids from 24 Gram-positive bacteria of the genera Bacillus, Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Listeria, Staphylococcus, and the streptococcal pyogenic and oral group were analyzed.
  • (16) However, the overall homology between RV and the alphaviruses in this region of the genome was only 18%, indicating that these two genera of the Togavirus family are only distantly related.
  • (17) Fourteen Streptomyces strains from various numerical taxonomic classes and representatives of three other genera of actinomycetes were studied using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (IND-ELISA) to determine their serological relationships.
  • (18) Among asporogenous anaerobes, the main causative agents of pulmonary abscesses have been found to belong to four genera: Bacteroides, Fusobacterium, Peptococcus and Peptostreptococcus.
  • (19) The probe reacted with the pathogenic hardjo and tarassovi leptospiral serovars, but not with other genera of bacteria.
  • (20) Regardless of genera, microorganisms which grew well in fish were able to produce TVA and TVB.

Ragwort


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The poisonous principles in tansy ragwort are pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which cause gradual alteration and necrosis of liver cells with replacement by fibrous tissue.
  • (2) In control rats, most fecal vitamin A was excreted in the first 24 h post-dosing, while in tansy ragwort-fed animals, the excretion was delayed, suggesting a possible effect of PA on gut motility.
  • (3) The effect of feeding a diet containing 5% tansy ragwort (TR) (Senecio jacobaea), a poisonous plant containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA), on the blood and liver levels of copper, zinc, iron and vitamin A in broiler chicks was examined.
  • (4) Like his colleague Tory MP Nicholas Soames, who in 2009 called the "scourge" of ragwort a national "shame", Benyon struck back, saying his critics were being "unnecessarily aggressive", and that he wasn't advocating ethnic cleansing of ragwort but that he wanted to deal with "a severe infestation of a poisonous plant".
  • (5) Calves and cows (n = 45) were fed daily doses of dried prebud tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) derived from a single plant collection made in Tillamook, Oregon.
  • (6) There is a chapter on ragwort in one of the standard textbooks," wrote another.
  • (7) In group 1, 4 calves were continuously fed dried tansy ragwort mixed in a pelleted feed at a 5% concentration by dry weight until terminal liver disease developed.
  • (8) The hepatotoxic alkaloids known to occur in tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea L.) are also present in honey produced from the nectar of this species.
  • (9) Twenty-five 1-week-old male chicks were fed for 6 weeks on a standard diet incorporating 7% dried and ground ragwort (Senecio jacobea).
  • (10) Ragwort feeding caused megalocytosis, focal necrosis, focal hyperplasia and portal fibrosis.
  • (11) It is thus apparent that the disease can be confused clinically with many others, and tansy ragwort poisoning should be considered in animals exhibiting ascites, diarrhea and rectal prolapse.
  • (12) Selected case reports from closely controlled experimental feedings of Senecio jacobaea (tansy ragwort), S longilobus (threadleaf groundsel) and S riddellii (Riddell's groundsel) to cattle are presented to show that all 3 of these pyrrolizidine alkaloid-containing plants may not necessarily induce proximate toxicity, but may cause typical signs and death many months after the plants are ingested.
  • (13) And they attacked his ecological knowledge: "At least 30 insect and 14 fungi species are entirely reliant on ragwort, and about a third of the insects are scarce or rare.
  • (14) Landowners who wish to control ragwort face an impossible task when roadside verges are dominated by it to an extent I cannot remember in the past.
  • (15) Crotolaria spp, the ragwort (Senecia jacobaea), the lantana spp.
  • (16) The former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Tebbit has said young unemployed people should be made to pull up ragwort from roadside verges in return for benefits.
  • (17) The animal's tolerance for the plant was dependent on the amount of tansy ragwort fed, and the duration of the dosing period.
  • (18) In two experiments, the effect of feeding the pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA)-containing plant tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) on the metabolism of vitamin A in rats was examined.
  • (19) As for East Anglia’s ragwort problem, I suggest that instead of press-ganging our young, we might start making our legion of tax evaders pay it forward.
  • (20) Ragwort Facebook Twitter Pinterest Caterpillars on ragwort.

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