What's the difference between insect and mesothorax?
Insect
Definition:
(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
Mesothorax
Definition:
(n.) The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the weakest allele only part of the mesothorax is deleted.
(2) Contrabithorax (Cbx) alleles are dominant mutations in the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) gene of Drosophila that cause its ectopic expression in the mesothorax.
(3) If the ftz gene is prevented from functioning, alternating portions of the body normally derived from the active stripes fail to develop, resulting in larvae which lack the denticle bands normally formed by the mesothorax and odd-numbered abdominal segments (that is, thoracic segment T2 and abdominal segments A1, A3, A5 and A7).
(4) Contrabithorax, a mutant of the bithorax system in Drosophila melanogaster produces a partial homeotic transformation of mesothorax (wing) into methathorax (haltere).
(5) The absence of Antp+ function during embryogenesis results in the larval mesothorax exhibiting characteristics of the prothorax and an ensuing lethality; the loss of Antp+ function in the development of the adult thorax causes specific portions of the leg, wing and humeral imaginal discs to develop abnormally.
(6) The projection of the large companiform sensilla branch profusely along the ventromedial tract and more sensory fibers cross the midline in the mesothorax.
(7) Likewise, eye discs transformed to dorsal mesothorax by eyopt transdetermined to leg structures, also extremely frequently (90%).
(8) To investigate further these intrinsic properties and also extrinsic factors involved in guiding axon growth and determining synaptic connectivity, pieces of epidermis from the head were transplanted to the posterior head, prothorax, or mesothorax.
(9) It has been shown previously that in Polycomb lethal embryos posterior transformations require the normal function of the BX-C. We show here that anterior transformations of the mesothorax and other segments require the normal function of the Sex combs reduced (Scr) locus, also necessary for the normal development of the prothorax and some head segments.
(10) Phenocopies of the bithorax mutation which transforms metathorax to mesothorax were observed.
(11) Finally, we asked whether the ppx transformation, which results from early lack of Ubx+ function in the mesothorax and is seen in abx animals, is due to ectopic Scr expression.
(12) The aorta of Sympetrum danae possesses two dorsal diverticula: one in the mesothorax and one in the metathorax.
(13) Differential staining of two identified synaptically coupled neurones, a motoneurone and an interneurone, in the mesothorax of Locusta is presented as an illustration for the possible localisation of contact sites at the light-microscopic level.
(14) The mesothorax of Polycomb lethal embryos often shows posterior transformations of the anterior- and posterior-most portions of the segment, and anterior transformations of the medial portion.
(15) After 12 days of culture in vivo, antenna discs transformed to ventral mesothorax by AntpNs or AntpZ, transdetermined to notum and wing structures four to five times more frequently than the corresponding wild-type antenna discs.
(16) This interaction takes the form of an enhancement of the homeotic bx phenotype to a more extreme form-i.e., the metathorax is transformed into mesothorax in varying degrees depending on the bx allele used.