(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.
Unguis
Definition:
(n.) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.
(n.) One of the terminal hooks on the foot of an insect.
(n.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intracellular and extracellular electrodes were used to study spontaneous and impulse-linked release of transmitter at locust retractor unguis nerve-muscle synapses.2.
(2) Pterygium inversum unguis (PIU) is a digital anomaly characterized by adherence of the subungueal tissue to the ventral surface of the distal nail plates.
(3) These strongly suggest that the fibrous structure of organic matrix assists the orientation of apatite crystals in Lingula unguis shell.
(4) Sterigmatocystin production by A. unguis is reported for the first time.
(5) The amino acid sequence of the beta chain of hemerythrin from Lingula unguis was determined.
(6) An unusual case of pterygium unguis involving all the nails is reported and the possible causes of such onychopathy are briefly discussed.
(7) The retractor unguis motor neurons, synergistic to the depressors, are, like them, excited by ventral contact but, like the levator, are inhibited by afferents which can signal the end of the stance phase.
(8) However, while the glutamate uptake in the CI and SETi nerve endings of the slow 135cd is comparable to the high-affinity uptake of glutamate in the fast excitor tibiae (FETi) nerve endings of the fast retractor unguis muscle, a high-affinity uptake of glutamate was only demonstrated in the glia of both types of nerve endings.
(9) E. unguis converted ML-236B to ML-236A with a yield of over 90%.
(10) Three cases of dystrophia unguis mediana canaliformis are presented herein.
(11) Approximately 1,600 fungal strains were tested for ability to convert compactin (ML-236B) to ML-236A and Emericella unguis IFO 8087 was found to be the most active.
(12) During an 18-month period, four patients with scleroderma were found to have nail findings suggestive or pterygium inversum unguis, a recently described condition.
(13) It is possible that abnormalities of this structure may result in onycholysis, pachyonychia congenita, and pterygium inversum unguis.
(14) As a result, subungual clavi, unguis incarnatus, unguis convolutus, or laterally turning onychogryposis like a cork-screw develop.
(15) Lingula unguis shell yields a diffuse small angle X-ray scattering which is caused mainly by the scattering from particles of apatite.
(16) This made it possible to investigate three species of the Aspergillus nidulans group: A. nidulans, A. unguis, A. variecolor.
(17) However, interpretation of these amplitude distributions was complicated by the effect on the extracellular recordings of the complex structural organization of the retractor unguis nerve terminal with its spatially distinct transmitter release sites extending over distances of 15-30 mum.3.
(18) The brachiopoda, Lingula unguis, has a pair of anterior adductors located in the center of the shell.
(19) A 35-year-old man with long-standing lepromatous leprosy and history of recurrent, severe type 2 lepra reaction was found to have pterygium unguis and destruction of the fingernails.
(20) The toxins act as non-competitive inhibitors at quisqualate-type glutamatergic receptors on a metathoracic retractor unguis nerve-muscle preparation of Schistocerca gregaria.