What's the difference between hymenopteran and wasp?
Hymenopteran
Definition:
(n.) One of the Hymenoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, VLP of hymenopteran wasps have been shown to play a crucial part in suppressing the cellular encapsulation reaction (Stoltz and Vinson, 1979a).
(2) Predictions about the colour vision systems of the different hymenopteran species are derived from the spectral sensitivities by application of a receptor model of colour vision and a model of two colour opponent channels.
(3) Implications of phylogenetic relationships among hymenopteran species are discussed.
(4) Temporal summation was measured in green-sensitive photoreceptors of seven hymenopteran species with various life styles: three bees, Melipona quadrifasciata quadrifasciata, Trigona spinnipes and Bombus morio; one wasp, Polistes canadensis; and three ants, Pseudomyrmex phyllophilus, Camponotus rufipes, and Atta sexdens rubropilosa.
(5) These sequence data were used to develop a strategy for detecting inserted elements in the rDNA fragments containing type-I or type-II insertion sites, and this strategy was used to screen twelve hymenopteran species and four non-Hymenoptera control species.
(6) Parsimony analyses using the mouse and Xenopus sequences as outgroups show significantly more amino acid substitutions on the branch to Apis (120) than on that to Drosophila (44), indicating a difference in the long-term evolutionary rates of hymenopteran and dipteran mtDNA.
(7) Nucleotide sequence variation from a 573-bp region of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene was determined for representative hymenopteran taxa.
(8) We have examined the effect of venom sac extract (VSE), prepared from two hymenopteran species, on intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) accumulation in a cultured human cell line.
(9) In co-operation with colleagues in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A., 25 years of research in Amsterdam have provided new views on the way some hymenopteran insects incapacitate their prey by a diversity of neurotoxins, resulting in block of synaptic transmission in CNS or neuromuscular junctions, or affecting voltage dependent phenomena in nerve and muscle fibers.
(10) However, of special interest will be sequences from dipteran and hymenopteran polyhedrins which will add greatly to our understanding of the constraints governing polyhedrin structure and diversity.
(11) Delayed neurologic hypersensitivity reactions to Hymenopteran stings occur primarily in adults.
(12) The ultrastructure of the rectal papillae of the parasitoid hymenopteran, Nasonia vitripennis (Walk), is described.
(13) The hymenopteran genomes therefore appear to contain repeated elements, the mobility and nature of which remain to be determined.
(14) Polydnaviruses are thought to replicate only in the ovaries of certain hymenopteran species.
(15) Each child had a positive skin-test reaction to one or more of five hymenopteran venoms.
(16) The activities of the enzymes phospholipase and hyaluronidase, which are believed to be present in all hymenopteran venoms could not be detected.
(17) Behavioural tests were carried out with 9 hymenopteran insect species, which ranked certain sets of coloured stimuli according to their subjective similarity to a previously memorized stimulus.
(18) These data are the first report of direct examination of the biosynthesis of wasp venom proteins and the first analysis of the processing of specific hymenopteran venom proteins in target tissues.
(19) Four of the hymenopteran insects tested contain an additional R-receptor with maximal sensitivity around 600 nm.
(20) The proteins of venom reservoirs from 25 hymenopteran species from 21 genera were investigated with regard to their protein composition and immunological similarities.
Wasp
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(2) This interpretation is strongly supported by the observation that the wasp poison mastoparan, which is known to mimic receptor-mediated activation of certain Gi proteins, also promoted anchorage independence.
(3) A growth-blocking peptide (GBP) with repressive activity against juvenile hormone (JH) esterase has been isolated from the last (6th) instar larval plasma of the armyworm Pseudaletia separata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) parasitized by the parasitoid wasp Apanteles kariyai (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) (1,2).
(4) Fifty-two analogues of the wasp toxin, philanthotoxin-433, have been synthesized and tested on a glutamatergic, nerve-muscle preparation from locust leg.
(5) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.
(6) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(7) Taken together, these correlations indicate that the wasp may render the tick inhospitable to both pathogens.
(8) Other than snake venoms, only venoms of the toad Bufo calamita and the lizards were hemorrhagic, and only venoms of the social wasps, social bees and harvester ant exhibited strong anticoagulant activity.
(9) The precipitating agents were penicillin (7 cases), aspirin (3), food (2), and bee or wasp sting (8).
(10) In both bee venom allergy and wasp venom allergy the corresponding allergen induced concentration-dependent histamine release.
(11) Or are half these people too idle, not just to remove their own wasp nests, but to do their own redacting?
(12) Monoclonal antibodies raised against venom glands recognized epitopes conserved on several polydnavirus proteins and on multiple wasp oviduct and venom proteins.
(13) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(14) Venoms from 20 species of stinging Hymenoptera, including nine species of ants and nine species of social wasps, were quantitatively analyzed for the following enzymic activities: phospholipase A, hyaluronidase, lipase, esterase, protease, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and phosphodiesterase.
(15) The tiny wasps lay their eggs in the aphids, which are then eaten by the hatching grubs.
(16) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
(17) By his own admission he is a Wasp, a White Ashkenazi Supporter of Peace.
(18) In larvae of a selected immune-reactive strain the rates of tyrosine hydroxylation, dopa oxidation, and dopamine oxidation were markedly increased during the early stages of melanotic encapsulation of the eggs of the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi.
(19) Studies of the dorsal ocelli of the wasp Paravespula vulgaris (L.) led to the following results: Under a biconvex corneal lens, 150 microns in thickness, about 600 receptor cells are located.
(20) Over an eight and a half year period 742 patients were assessed for allergy to stinging and biting insects in Queensland; 452 (61%) had allergic reactions to honey bees, 244 (33%) to wasps, 30 (4%) to various ants, 11 (1.5%) to march flies (Tabanus sp.)