(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(2) The genus Streptomyces was dominant in the two studied localities.
(3) The compounds favored the development of bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas and inhibited the growth of all other gram-negative bacteria.
(4) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
(5) The 212 strains of this proposed subserovar examined to date display biochemical and serological properties typical of the species, are sensitive to the genus-specific bacteriophage, and cause keratoconjunctivitis in the Sereny test.
(6) The new species has been placed in a new genus and the name Tricornia muhezae proposed.
(7) Although differing somewhat in their responses to various biochemical and biophysical tests, all strains were assigned to the genus Flavobacterium.
(8) Ten TBT-resistant isolates from estuarine sediments and 19 from freshwater sediments were identified to the genus level.
(9) A new genus of actinomycetes, Excellospora Agre a. Guzeva gen. nov., is suggested on the basis of this study.
(10) A new genus of spirochaetes, Hollandina, is also described.
(11) The first group consisted of all strains belonging to L. interrogans and serovar andamana of L. biflexa; the second group consisted of the remaining 5 serovars of L. biflexa; the third group consisted of the genus Leptonema; and the fourth group consisted of only L. parva.
(12) The reservosomes of Trypanosoma spp., sub-genus Schizotrypanum, could be differentiated from the multivesicular bodies of other trypanosomatids, since they lack true vesicles.
(13) Statistical analysis of 251 phylogenetically informative nucleotide positions rejects the "volvocine lineage" hypothesis, which postulates a monophyletic evolutionary progression from unicellular organisms (such as Chlamydomonas), through colonial organisms (e.g., Gonium, Pandorina, Eudorina, and Pleodorina) demonstrating increasing size, cell number, and tendency toward cellular differentiation, to multicellular organisms having fully differentiated somatic and reproductive cells (in the genus Volvox).
(14) In all cases, the determinants of the killer trait are carried by obligate bacterial endosymbionts belonging to the genus Caedibacter.
(15) Lastly, the CVA indicated major differences across the genus to be located in the teeth and jaws, suggesting diet might be an important distinguishing feature in Colobus.
(16) Another pigment 7 was specifically present in the skin of genus Rhacophorus and was deduced to be a pteridine derivative composed of five molecules of pterin-6-carboxylic acid [1].
(17) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
(18) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
(19) Sporobolomyces yuccicola is the sixth species of the intermedius group, a group of atypical species of the genus Sporobolomyces equipped with Q-9.
(20) This reduction was confined to strict anaerobes, mainly the genus Eubacterium and Bifidobacterium.
Sophora
Definition:
(n.) A genus of leguminous plants.
(n.) A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results showed that the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" used in different regions in China at present are the roots or rhizomes derived from 9 species: Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.
(2) The seeds of Sophora secundiflora (mescalbeans) have been purported to have hallucinogenic activity because of their past use in certain Native American ceremonies during which visions were experienced by those consuming the seeds.
(3) The evaluated lectins included Triticum vulgaris (WGA), Concanavalin ensiformis (ConA), Phaseolus vulgaris leukoagglutinin and erythroagglutinin (PHA-L and PHA-E), Lens culinaris (LCA), Pisum sativum (PSA), Dolichos biflorus (DBA), Glycine max (SBA), Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Sophora japonica (SJA), Bandeiraea simplicifolia I (BSL-I), Ulex europaeus I (UEA-I) and Ricinus communis I (RCA-I).
(4) From Sophora subprostrata Radix, the roots of Sophora subprostrata, six triterpenoidal saponins having soyasapogenol A, B, sophoradiol and kuzusapogenol A as aglycones, were isolated as their methyl esters.
(5) The agglutinating activity of lectins from the seeds of Sophora japonica and Canavalia ensiformis (concanavalin A) with human and murine erythrocytes and lymphocytes have been compared to one another and related to the mitogenic and immunosuppressive properties of these purified proteins.
(6) The authors describe a method for the detection of carbohydrate determinants contained by the cellular surface membrane glycosylated biopolymers, based on the use of horse radish peroxidase-conjugated Arachis, Helix pomatia, Ricinus communis, Lens, Glycine max, Sophora japonica lectins.
(7) The inhibitory effect of vexibinol, one of the flavanols found in Sophora, on gastric ulcers induced by HCl-ethanol has been reported previously.
(8) By means of lectin-peroxidase technique histotopography of receptor sites for Ricinus communis agglutinin (RCA), peanut agglutinin (PA), soybean agglutinin (SA), Sophora japonica lectin (SJL), wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), Laburnum anagyroides lectin (LAL), Lotus tetragonolobus lectin (LTL) and concanavalin A (con A) in normal aortic tissue sections as well as in dissecting aortic aneurysms (Gsell-Erdheim syndrome) has been investigated.
(9) Sophora japonica and Ricinus communis lectins (with galactose specificity) and concanavalin A largely inhibit the binding process of insulin and those effects concern the ""high affinity'' receptor sites.
(10) Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (WFA), Sophora japonica agglutinin (SJA) and Maclura pomifera lectin (MPL) were employed as immunofluorescent and leucoagglutinating reagents to study murine lymphocytes.
(11) The distribution of various sugars, that contribute to the composition of the carbohydrate components of the glycoprotein in the ultimobranchial tubule and the thyroid C-cells has been studied, using eight peroxidase-labelled lectins (Dolichos biblorus, Glycine max, Bauhinia purpurea, Helix pomatia, Arachis hipogaea, Ulex europaeus I, Limax flavus and Sophora japonica).
(12) Three new oleanene glycosides, sophoraflavosides II-IV (2-4) were isolated together with sophoraflavoside I (1) as the corresponding methyl ester forms from Sophorae Radix, the fresh roots of Sophora flavescens AITON (Leguminosae).
(13) The Japanese Pogada Tree (Sophora japonica) contains at least four distinct lectins distributed among seeds, bark, and leaf tissues of the plant.
(14) Antithrombotic xinmaining were composed with Moschus, Calculus Bovis, Borneol, Radix Ligusticum, Flos Sophorae Immaturus, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Leech, etc.
(15) The expression of receptors for N-acetylgalactosamine-recognizing lectins, namely Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA), Sophora japonica agglutinin (SJA), Bauhinia purpurea agglutinin (BPA), Vicia villosa agglutinin (VVA), and Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) was studied in early mouse embryos and teratocarcinoma cells.
(16) The oligosaccharide heterogeneity pattern for Erythrina cristagalli lectin was also found for the lectins from four other Erythrina species and the lectins of two other legumes, Sophora japonica and Lonchocarpus capassa.
(17) Matrine, a pure compound isolated from the Chinese herb Shan-don-Gen (Sophora subprostrata), was studied for its effects on the cardiovascular system of the rat.
(18) Sophora flower buds (huai-mi) contained a great deal of rutin, while the immature fruits (huai-chiao) contained sophoricoside and sophorabioside.
(19) These lectins were Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Dolichos biflorus (DBA), Griffonia simplicifolia I (GS-I), Helix aspersa (HAA), Helix pomatia (HPA), Sophora japonica (SJA), Ricinus communis I (RCA-I), Triticum vulgaris (WGA) and Ulex europaeus I (UEA-I).
(20) Retinal vascular endothelial cells consistently bound ABA, ECA, PHA-E and RCA-I, but they could also bind BPA, HPA, Bandeiraea simplicifolia (BSA-I), Dolichos biflorus (DBA) and Euonymus europaeus (EEA) agglutinins in unpretreated sections, as well as MPA, PNA, soybean (SBA) and Sophora japonica (SJA) agglutinins subsequent to predigestion with neuraminidase.