(n.) An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cercal system, which may have evolved with the first terrestrial hexapods, reaches its zenith in the orthopteroid insects, but was replaced in holometabolan insects by visual startle mechanisms with descending giant interneurons.
(2) Maximum parsimony analyses and monophyly testing within arthropods indicate that myriapods (millipedes and centipedes) form a sister group to all other assemblages, whereas crustaceans (shrimps and lobsters) plus hexapods (insects and allied groups) form a well-supported monophyletic group.
(3) Recaptured migrants with infected ticks indicate that they transmit B. burgdorferi to hexapod larvae.
(4) Parsimony analysis further suggests that onychophorans form a sister group to chelicerates (spiders and scorpions) and crustaceans plus hexapods, but this relationship is not well supported by monophyly testing.
(5) The vectors are the hexapod larvae of Rhipicephalus sanguineus, R. turanicus and H. truncatum; the filarial infective stages appear during the larval-nymph moult of the vector (11 days at 26 degrees C).
(6) Histological and ultrastructural analysis of the development of C. roussilhoni--a filarial parasite of A. africanus with skin-dwelling microfilariae--in the hexapod, larva of R. sanguineus.
Octopod
Definition:
(n.) One of the Octocerata.
Example Sentences:
(1) The function of the epistellar body, lying within the mantle of octopods is still unknown.
(2) The subpeduncualte lobe of the octopod brain produces a hormone that is released into the orbit.
(3) Individuals belonging to five genera (decapod and octopod) were anaesthetized and subsequently revived at temperatures ranging from 13 to 22 degrees C. At no stage of anaesthesia does MgCl2 appear to cause any trauma.
(4) Octopod and decapod lenses share one common major squid-type crystallin of 29 kDa, with one additional novel crystallin present only in the octopus lens.
(5) The administration of reserpine produced a marked decrease in the concentration of catecholamines and 5-hydroxytryptamine in octopod nervous tissue.5.
(6) In dispersed acinar cells prepared from guinea pig pancreas, peptides isolated from amphibian skin (caerulein, bombesin, litorin, and physalaemin) as well as eledoisin, a peptide isolated from the posterior salivary gland of a Mediterranean octopod, increased outflux of 45Ca, release of bound 45Ca, accumulation of cyclic GMP, and release of amylase.
(7) In cirrate octopods, the eye is an open cup without lens and the retinal rhabdoms are disorganized.
(8) Octopod (Octo) is a mutation of the moth Manduca sexta, which results in the homeotic transformation of the ventral surface of the first (A1) and less often the second (A2) abdominal segments in the anterior direction.
(9) The spot occurs on the stellate ganglion of octopods.
(10) In dispersed acini prepared from guinea pig pancreas, peptides isolated from amphibian skin (caerulein, bombesin, litorin, and physalaemin) as well as eledoisin, a peptide isolated from the posterior salivary gland of a Mediterranean octopod, caused a significant increase in amylase release.