(n.) The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, / Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children bitten by Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes appear to do well with treatment programs consisting primarily of antivenom and blood component replacement.
(2) The Eastern massasauga rattlesnake is native to many Midwestern states.
(3) Pit vipers (rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, and massasaugas) are responsible for 99% of all snakebite poisonings; coral snakes and other foreign exotic species are responsible for the additional 1%.
Subspecies
Definition:
(n.) A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
Example Sentences:
(1) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(2) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
(3) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(4) Both effects were neutralised by an antiserum against the purified dermonecrotic toxin of P multocida subspecies multocida.
(5) Additionally the most strains of Salmonella subspecies I from nosocomial infections produced aerobactin, in the most cases determined by plasmids.
(6) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
(7) Second, two macaques or two African green monkey subspecies were as distanly related as the human versus chimpanzee sequences.
(8) The distribution of leucocyte common antigen (LCA) protein subspecies and the cellular adhesion molecules LFA-1 (CD11a), ICAM-1 (CD54) and p150,95 (CD11c) has been established within frozen sections of human foetal thymus.
(9) Perhaps translocation of PKC represents an extreme state of the active form of the enzyme, which may result from PMA action, and the alpha-subspecies presumably plays a key role in HL-60 cell differentiation.
(10) It is proposed that the subspecies of X. nematophilus be elevated to species, X. nematophilus, X. bovienii, X. poinarii and X. beddingii.
(11) The increased plasma LDL in the hypercholesterolemic pigs was confined to a buoyant LDL subspecies.
(12) Monoclonal antibodies have been produced that are specific for the reference stocks of Leishmania mexicana species and subspecies L. mexicana mexicana(L11, M379), L. mexicana amazonensis (WR303, H6, LV72), and L. mexicana pifanoi (L20).
(13) Analysis of different Mus subspecies indicates that TLev1 integrated into a common ancestor of the species Mus musculus.
(14) Negative results were found in H2S production, phosphatase and in the utilization of NH4+ and glucose as the only source of N and C. The evident differences from the species described and subspecies of Aeromonas elucidate the weakness of the existing systems of biotyping.
(15) The ELISA and an immunoblotting technique were used to study F38-type mycoplasmas - an important cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia - and a number of related mycoplasma species, subspecies, types or serogroups.
(16) The other one shows typical characteristics of PKC which responds to Ca2+, phosphatidylserine and diacylglycerol, but shows kinetic properties subtly different from the previously known PKC subspecies.
(17) One of our patients, who was infected with Lactobacillus acidophilus, was cured by medical therapy alone, and our other patient, who was infected with Lactobacillus casei subspecies rhamnosus, required surgical replacement of his aortic valve.
(18) A new species, Apiosoma lotae, and subspecies, Apiosoma piscicola percae, are described.
(19) The content of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate in the erythrocytes in this animal is the same as in the sea-level subspecies C. p. planicola, whereas the electrophoretic picture of hemoglobin in these two subspecies was found to be different.
(20) 17 Leishmania stocks isolated from the Andean and Amazonean region of Peru were compared isoenzymatically with reference stocks of New World Leishmania subspecies by ultra-thin-layer isoelectric focusing.