(n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5 to 10% of the DNA of M. serrator and the closely related Mergus merganser.
(2) Two highly repeated nucleotide sequences (RBMI and RBMII) cloned from an EcoRI digest of DNA of the redbreasted merganser (Mergus serrator) account for approx.
Murre
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Elias Murr complained that the cables were "inaccurate" and taken out of context.
(2) We propose that the major site of gluconeogenesis from amino acids in the murre is the liver, since this is a much larger organ than the kidney and has a cytosolic form of PEPCK necessary for gluconeogenesis from oxidized substrates.
(3) Gluconeogenesis in vitro was determined in both hepatocytes and kidney tubules isolated from 3-day-fasted murres.
(4) Natural pox infection occurred in a free-living, immature common murre (Uria aalge) in northern California.
(5) A novel toxic cyclopeptide from Amanita suballiacea (Murr.)
(6) At the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR), the code MCNP has recently been used to calculate doses in a phantom.
(7) PEPCK in murre kidney was present only in the mitochondrial compartment.
(8) Cubes of Douglas-fir wood decayed by Poria weirii (Murr.)
(9) An epidemiological study on caries in 1,091 primary school pupils in the Rems-Murr area revealed improvement in oral health as compared with results of earlier studies in the Federal Republic of Germany.
(10) Therefore, a second beam that is less difficult to build and install, but of lower neutron current, has been designed to fit in MURR port F. This beam is designed using inexpensive A1, S, and Pb.
(11) In 2006 the Lebanese defence minister, Elias Murr, told US diplomats that Mughniyeh was "very active in Beirut", hinting that he was involved in a spate of murders of Lebanese politicians who were hostile to Syria.
(12) While in chickens, the existence of a liver form of pyruvate kinase is controversial, the liver form of pyruvate kinase in pheasants, murres and puffins is electrophoretically distinct from that in muscle, brain, kidney, lung and small intestine.
(13) Total body lipogenesis was similar in the murre and the chicken.
(14) Adenovirus-like particles were identified by transmission electron microscopy in intranuclear inclusion bodies in the renal collecting tubules of a male common murre.
(15) Bioassay-directed fractionation of the n-hexane extract of the stem of Rhus semialata Murr.
(16) This tick infests nesting colonies of the common tern, roseate tern, sandwich tern, herring gull (northern and Mediterranean races), common cormorant, shag, razorbill, common murre, black-legged kittiwake, and probably other marine birds nesting nearby.
(17) Lebanon's defence minister, Elias Murr – reported in other leaked documents as telling US officials that the army would not involve itself in a future Israeli attack on Lebanon – said the allegations sought to cause unrest.
(18) Sequence analysis of one cloned MuRRS element revealed several possible open reading frames with partial sequence homologies to retroviral gag, pol and env genes.
(19) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) in murre liver occurs in both cytoplasmic and mitochondrial forms.
(20) The liver contributes 10.4% to whole body lipogenesis in fed murres when measured in vivo using 3H2O.