(a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adult mallard ducks fed 0, 2, 20, or 200 ppm of cadmium chloride in the diet were sacrificed at 30-day intervals and tissues were analyzed for cadmium.
(2) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
(3) Generally metal levels were higher in the salt gland for mallard and black duck, and in the liver for greater scaup.
(4) Neonatal ducklings and chickens were tested for responsiveness to a pulsing pure tone that was as similar as possible to the mallard maternal alarm call.
(5) Twenty-four-hour-old mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos) exhibit a high degree of behavioral freezing (i.e., vocal and locomotor inhibition) upon hearing the maternal alarm call, which the hen utters when potential predators are near the nest.
(6) By the end of August, shorter chain wax esters composed of C6 and C12 acids became the dominant components of the secretion and this composition, previously considered characteristic of mallards, remained constant until March.
(7) Artificially incubated mallard eggs were treated externally with 5 microliter of No.
(8) Mallard drakes accumulated mercury rapidly from dietary dosage of methylmercury dicyandiamide and eliminated it slowly, retaining approximately one half at the end of 84 days; no measurable loss occurred between the end of the 7th and 56th days, but loss resumed concurrently with new feather growth, and continued through the 112th day, the close of the study.
(9) Growth characteristics of the mallards on the other hand, did not differ between the sexes.
(10) The prevalence of influenza varied greatly among the common waterfowl species: mallards 42%, black ducks 30%, blue-winged teal 11%, wood ducks 2%, and Canada geese 0%.
(11) Mallard eggs collected in the wild have been found to contain levels of mercury exceeding the 1 ppm (wet-weight) found in the eggs of hens fed a diet containing 0.5 ppm, but there are no reports of mallard eggs collected in the wild that were found to contain as much mercury (6 to 9 ppm) as eggs from hens fed a diet containing 3 ppm mercury.
(12) In posthatching mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), brain cooling improves with growth.
(13) The 1-24 ACTH-induced increases in B and Aldo synthesis by the mallard and Pekin duck cells exposed to the same range of concentrations were up to 40 and 60 times greater than the corresponding responses of the chicken cells.
(14) The rat mammary gland thioesterase II exhibits approximately 40% homology with a thioesterase from mallard uropygial gland, the sequence of which was recently determined by cDNA analysis [Poulose, A.J., Rogers, L., Cheesbrough, T. M., & Kolattukudy, P. E. (1985) J. Biol.
(15) Differences in the organization of the systems in pigeon and mallard are related to the differing degrees of visual and tactile (trigeminal) contributions to feeding in the two birds.
(16) Two of these, cutinase, a typical serine esterase from the fungus Fusarium solani pisi, and thioesterase B from the uropygial gland of the mallard duck Anus platyrhynchus, hydrolyzed diethylpyrocarbonate so rapidly that histidine modification could not be detected except when the enzymic activity was inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate treatment or by the presence of critical micellar concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulphate.
(17) Localization studies of the hypothalamohypophysial and tuberoinfundibular neurosecretory systems were performed in the adult male mallard duck with an immunoperoxidase techinque for the demonstration of neurophysin (NP) and gonado-tropin-releasing hormone (Gn-RH) and with aldehyde fuchsin for the staining of neuosecretory material (NSM).
(18) Plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels were measured in the mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) following hypothalamic lesions at various sites.
(19) Mallards and black ducks from the Atlantic Flyway and mallards from the Pacific Flyway contained significantly lower DDE residues than in 1969-70.
(20) This was followed by two regions encoding ORF1 and ORF2 which were similar to each other (48% nucleotide identity, 31% amino acid identity), as well as to GrsT, a protein encoded by a gene located adjacent to gramicidin S synthetase in Bacillus brevis, and to vertebrate (mallard duck and rat) thioesterases.
Sord
Definition:
(n.) See Sward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether or not there were carriers for either amorphous or hypomorphous alleles of the SORD locus in the population studied could not be defined in terms of enzymatic activity levels.
(2) Each plasmid contained the structural genes sorA for an Enzyme II of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent carbohydrate:phosphotransferase system, sorD for a D-glucitol 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, sorE for an L-sorbose 1-phosphate reductase, and the corresponding regulator gene sorR.
(3) New descriptions of three species and one subspecies of larvae of T. semenovi Ols., T. regularis Jaenn., T. laetetinctus laetetinctus Beck., and T. l. sordes Bog.
(4) Biochemical studies showed that thiol groups participate in the mobility of the SP fast band; furthermore, an interchange of the bands of SP-SORD was observed which suggests that the isozymes are due to conformational isomerism or to molecular aggregates.
(5) An electrophoretic study of sorbitol dehydrogenase (SORD) in sperm and seminal plasma (SP) was realized.
(6) In SP, three phenotypes (one slow band, one fast, and both bands) were observed, corroborating the electrophoretic variability of SP-SORD formerly reported by us, while, in sperm, SORD showed a phenotype of one band faster than the one of SP.
(7) The structural genes sorD, sorA and sorE code for a D-glucitol-6-P dehydrogenase (27 kilodalton (kD)), an Enzymell (EllSor) activity specific for L-sorbose and an L-sorbose-1-P reductase (45kD).
(8) The chromosomal locations for these 23 loci were determined as follows: GOT1 on rat chromosome 1; HAGH on 2; ACP2, ADA, GANC, ITPA, and SORD on 3; LDHB on 4; PEPB on 7; GLB1 and HEXA on 8; IDH1 on 9; UMPH2 on 10; GUSB on 12; FH and PEPC on 13; PEPS on 14; ESD and NP on 15; DIA4 on 19; and PP on 20.
(9) The linkage of NP, IDH2, SORD, MPI, and PKM2 was confirmed, and three other independently segregating markers (MDH1, ACY1, and PEPB) were identified.
(10) A wide variability in RBC-SORD activity in controls and patients was observed.
(11) They form an operon (gene order sorCpCDFBAME) inducible by L-sorbose, and their products have the following functions: SorC (36 kDa), regulatory protein with repressor-activator functions; SorD (29 kDa), D-glucitol-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; SorF and SorB (14 and 19 kDa, respectively), and SorA and SorM (27 and 29 kDa, respectively), two soluble and two membrane-bound proteins, respectively, of an L-sorbose phosphotransferase transport system; SorE (45 kDa), sorbose-1-phosphate reductase.
(12) A screening for both thermostability and electrophoretic red blood cell sorbitol dehydrogenase (RBC-SORD) variants in blood donors was performed.
(13) A computer program was developed for on-line analysis of nystagmus parameters using a microcomputer (SORD M243EX).
(14) Of the 15 loci, three genes, HK1, PEPC, and SORD, were newly assigned to chromosomes 1, 5, and 6, respectively, while ENO1, PGD, and PGM1 were assigned to the long arm of chromosome 2, in the segment 2q113----qter.
(15) Quantitative screening for red blood cell sorbitol dehydrogenase (RBC-SORD) deficiency in 111 patients with juvenile onset diabetes, 92 patients with adult onset diabetes, 42 patients with idiopathic cataracts and 192 professional blood donors was performed.
(16) Linkage group 3 comprises PEP-B (peptidase B), MPI-1 (mannosephosphate isomerase), SORD (sorbitol dehydrogenase), and mIDH-2 (mitochondrial isocitrate dehydrogenase).
(17) No significant differences in SORD activity either between patients with diabetes and patients with idiopathic cataracts or between diabetics with and without cataracts were observed.