(n.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
(2) The percentage bacterial composition of dental plaques from 12 macropods was determined.
(3) Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, previously shown to be a relatively simple and reproducible method for distinguishing discrete strains of E. granulosus, could not discriminate between E. granulosus originating from central Queensland macropod marsupials, Australian mainland sheep or United Kingdom sheep.
(4) The major seminal sugar of the three macropod species was N-acetylglucosamine and glucose was also present in quite large concentrations.
(5) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to measure total antibody to Toxoplasma gondii in serum samples from macropods.
(6) Proliferative lesions were present in 14 macropods, 26 koalas, two wombats and 22 possums and gliders.
(7) Neutral beta-galactosidase (lactase) activity was absent from crude brush borders of small intestines of three species of suckling macropods (kangaroos and wallabies), even though the intestinal mucosal homogenates had high beta-galactosidase activities.
(8) Surveys were made of the worm burdens of feral goats, possums and Kangaroo Island Wallabies from places where macropods and ungulates graze together.
(9) This report presents information on the range of diseases and lesions that occurred in sections of livers of macropods held in the Non-Domestic Animal Registry at Taronga Zoo.
(10) The results suggest that the absorptive-digestive mechanism for lactose in macropods is fundamentally different from that in eutherian mammals.
(11) On 17 farms either macropods were killed for dog food or dogs were suspected of hunting macropods or scavenging their carcases.
(12) The development of the lymphoid tissues in a macropod marsupial is described.
(13) Isozyme differences were found between protoscoleces derived from different cysts in three sheep and three macropod marsupials.
(14) Small foci of the domestic strain of E. granulosus may be maintained in a cycle involving dingoes, macropods and possibly feral pigs in cattle raising areas of coastal Queensland.
(15) In addition, the concentration of 2-mercaptoethanol required to destroy the IgM fraction of macropod serum was confirmed in a modified direct agglutination test.
(16) These data on body mass and tissue proportions translate directly into center of gravity, strength-to-weight ratio, and muscular (kinetic) chains, key elements of macropod evolution.
(17) Negative MA test results to hardjo antigens were recorded in 55 mountain possums (T. caninus), 63 macropods (Macropus spp.
(18) One hundred and fifty-one Bennett's wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus) and 85 T. billardierii were also tested to determine the prevalence of acute toxoplasmosis of macropods in the wild.
(19) The strain of E. granulosus in both patients was genetically indistinguishable from that found in macropods, dingoes and sheep from New South Wales and the United Kingdom.
(20) At rates of travel observed in the field, the estimated energy cost of transport in large macropods is less than one-third the cost for a quadruped of equivalent body mass.
Macropus
Definition:
(n.) genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pituitary glands and corpora lutea collected at various stages of the reproductive cycle of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), were extracted and fractionated by high-performance liquid chromatography, and specific radioimmunoassays were used to measure mesotocin ([Ile8]-oxytocin) and oxytocin.
(2) These results indicate an influence of the conceptus upon the oestrous cycle of Macropus eugenii.
(3) Extra-cellular recordings from single cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, were made to find out whether the stratification of the nucleus could be correlated with the receptive field properties of units.
(4) The minimal hormonal requirements for the in-vitro accumulation of alpha-lactalbumin have been investigated in a marsupial, the tammar (Macropus eugenii).
(5) Clinical experience of 73 cases of necrobacillosis in red-necked wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus) over a 6-year period is reviewed.
(6) All three genes were located together on chromosome 3 in Macropus eugenii.
(7) n. is described from the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) from New South Wales, Australia.
(8) To further validate the tests, the serological responses of three eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) dosed orally with T. gondii oocysts and one M. giganteus injected with T. gondii cysts were studied.
(9) Immunoglobulin G (IgG) was measured in fetal, neonatal and colostral samples from the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) in order to study the possibility of passively acquired immunity.
(10) Two distinct satellite DNAs, amounting to 25% of the total DNA, were isolated from the nuclei of the red-necked wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus.
(11) Myocardial degeneration and necrosis in an adult female Australian kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) are described.
(12) The pattern of prolactin concentrations throughout lactation in the quoll is therefore very similar to that previously described for the tammar, Macropus eugenii, and the possum, Trichosurus vulpecula.
(13) The tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) is a small macropodid marsupial in which the major part of weaning occupies the period between 28 and 36 weeks of pouch life.
(14) The development of muscle spindles was studied in the hindlimb of pouch young of the marsupial Macropus eugenii (tammar wallaby) from birth to 100 days.
(15) Successful protection against lumpy jaw disease in a colony of captive wallabies (Macropus eugenii) was induced by vaccination with a commercial ovine footrot vaccine.
(16) Eleven immature adult Angiostrongylus cantonensis were recovered from beneath the meninges of a captive Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) which died after displaying posterior paresis followed by paralysis and intermittent opisthotonic spasms of increasing frequency for 7 days.
(17) Six species of Eimeria were redescribed from their type hosts, and on the basis of finding homologous oocysts in the faeces of other Macropus spp., host ranges for these coccidia were extended.
(18) Since in eutherian mammals proteinases appear to play a central role in implantation-initiation mechanisms, a systematic histochemical investigation of proteinase patterns as related to implantation was performed in the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii (Macropodidae).
(19) Somatic cell hybrids between Macropus rufus (Marsupialia) lymphocytes and the mouse cell lines PG19 and 1R were injected intraperitoneally into mice of the same inbred strain from which the above cell lines were derived (C57B16J and C3H, respectively).
(20) The development of the brachial spinal cord was studied in the marsupial Macropus eugenii (tammar wallaby) on postnatal days 1-34.