What's the difference between mammal and mammalia?

Mammal


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Mammalia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (2) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
  • (3) The binaural characteristics of cells in MSO were different from those in nonecholocating mammals.
  • (4) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
  • (5) So far, attempts to produce linolenic acid deficiency in mammals have not revealed an absolute requirement for n-3 fatty acids.
  • (6) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
  • (7) This indicates a functional relationship between material supplied via the rapid phase of axonal transport and an unimpaired transsynaptic signal transmission, previously not revealed in the central nervous system of mammals.
  • (8) Nucleus z in the rat was found to be similar in location to nucleus z in other mammals.
  • (9) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
  • (10) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
  • (11) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.
  • (12) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
  • (13) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (14) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
  • (15) Based on the fact that all hibernators, at their regulated minimal body temperature, display a uniform turnover rate, related to body weight, the hypothesis is developed that cold tolerance of mammals is generally limited by a common specific minimal metabolic rate, which larger organisms, because of their lower basal metabolism, already attain in less profound hypothermia.
  • (16) Based on morphological, virological, biochemical and molecular biological data, it is proposed that the presence of endogenous retrovirus particles in the placental cytotrophoblasts of many mammals is indicative of some beneficial action provided by the virus in relation to cell fusion, syncytiotrophoblast formation and the creation of the placenta.
  • (17) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
  • (18) Chlorinated ethylenes are metabolized in mammals, as a first step, to epoxides.
  • (19) This agrees with previous ultrastructural observations that, in small mammals, neither basement membranes nor large connective tissue spaces are found inside enteric ganglia.
  • (20) In recent studies, we have found that Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc residues are abundant on red cells and nucleated cells of nonprimate mammals, prosimians, and New World monkeys, but their expression is diminished in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.

Mammalia


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The value of this observation is given by the fact that until now hormone producing cells could be demonstrated in the laimina epithelialis of stomach and intestine of mammalia with exception of insulin-producing cells.
  • (2) Similarity and difference of the nuclei investigated in the turtles with the thalamic anterior nuclei in lizards, with the anterior and intralaminar nuclei in Mammalia are discussed.
  • (3) These glands were confirmed in humans alone among the mammalia.
  • (4) Although some differences exist between the properties of NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase from yeast and from mammalia, the results indicate a functional similarity of the present enzyme to mammalian NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase in the microsomal electron-transport system.
  • (5) The subcellular distribution and substrate specificity of hepatic alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase 1 have been reported to differ among mammalia.
  • (6) The ultrastructural feature of almost every developmental stage of the medium type from chicken was very similar to that of Cryptosporidium previously isolated from mammalia including human and birds except for the attachment site of C. muris to the mucus cell from mammalia, but dimension of the oocysts from fecal samples of the medium type was different from those of C. meleagridis and mammalia origin.
  • (7) Liver membranes from several species of the class of Mammalia bound significant quantities of 125I-hGH.
  • (8) peronei digitorum group in Mammalia (including Man) underwent its own morphological evolution.
  • (9) It is proposed that the alligator that lives with a low plasma bicarbonate concentration (10 mM) possesses a kidney in which the renal tubular cells secrete bicarbonate in the tubular lumen and hydrogen at the peritubular site, in contrast to that which takes place in mammalia and other animal species.
  • (10) These results demonstrated that purinergic modulation of synaptic transmission in the central nervous system in mammalia might play a significant role in the genesis of lidocaine-kindled seizures and behavioral changes.
  • (11) The microtubular density was assessed with the electron microscope in 3 microns myelinated fibers, myelin excluded, of 11 species from the following classes: Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia.
  • (12) Plasma membranes were isolated from the livers of various animal species representing the four vertebrate classes: Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia.
  • (13) The classes mammalia and aves are clearly different in respect to the utilization of this flavin.
  • (14) Especially by the investigation of the transplantation tolerance, for example between mammalia and inferior vertebrates, essential results as to the development of the immune system in vertebrates could be obtained.
  • (15) Extraocular proprioceptive impulses play an important role as do visual influx, in the maturation of the visual cortex in mammalia.
  • (16) The existing anatomic individualities in comparison to other mammalia result in special reproductive aspects and should be taken into consideration for successful breeding.
  • (17) Its structure and function have never been fully investigated and this paper is a preliminary report on the morphology of the vomeronasal organ in 26 species of mammalia.
  • (18) A comparative-embryological study (223 fetuses of man, cat, dog, albino rat and mole) has established a similarity in the development and structure of the intermediate nerve in mammalia.
  • (19) It is stressed the rĂ´ll of some mammalia and birds as hosts of human influenza virus, subjects of mutation in such organismes.
  • (20) The optimum pH (9.5) is lower than the ones generally observed as regards APs from both Invertebrata and Mammalia.

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