(n.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beetles with bacterial symbionts still required the fungus for reproduction on a second meridic diet.
(2) The three younger strata, all in the Lower Meride Limestone, yield three species of Neusticosaurus.
(3) Larvae of the screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), were reared on meridic diets containing ground corncob material (grit) in test 1 and the cob grit or sawdust in test 2 to reduce or replace the amount of an expensive synthetic copolymer gelling agent.
(4) Xyleborus ferrugineus beetles developed from asymbiontic eggs through the adult stage on a sterilized meridic diet, but the resulting adults reproduced only when a mutualistic fungus was inoculated into the diet.
Muride
Definition:
(n.) Bromine; -- formerly so called from its being obtained from sea water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thin blood smears were collected from 126 mammals representing four genera of marsupials and six genera of murid rodents.
(2) The murid-hamster split is estimated to be 1.6 times older than the mouse-rat split.
(3) As in M. globulosa, infective larvae develop in Ixodidae (Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Hyalomma truncatum); 20 to 30 larvae inoculated into the murids suffice for a patent infection.
(4) Water-deprived cricetids had higher urine osmolalities, urea concentrations and lower daily percentage body water turnovers than the murids.
(5) Only seven animals from three murid species were infected with C. hepatica; all were from the same rainforest in northern Queensland.
(6) Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) has been reported to stimulate or inhibit steroidogenesis in murid Leydig cells depending on the experimental conditions used.
(7) Brains, spleens and livers of 2214 murids, 27 shrews and 7 dormice, trapped at 7 sites in Rhodesia, were tested in 277 pools for the presence of Rift Valley Fever virus.
(8) Although a coagulum is formed, this is quite different from the typical hard copulatory plug that occurs in common laboratory murids; it may possibly reduce sperm backflow from the lower region of the female reproductive tract.
(9) This sucking louse is typically parasitic on domestic rats, which are murid rodents.
(10) Breinlia booliati Singh & Ho, 1973 first described from Peninsular Malaysia has been shown to infect a large range of murids ranging in distribution from southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak to Ciloto, Indonesia.
(11) Hoplopleura chrysocomi, H. sembeli, and H. musseri are described and illustrated as new species from bioendemic murid rodents, and H. pacifica Ewing is documented from commensal murids from Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia.
(12) Brain choline acetyltransferase, acetylcholinesterase with its molecular forms, and muscarinic receptor sites, as well as liver total cholinesterases were evaluated during the first postnatal month in pups of a precocial (Acomys cahirinus) and altricial (rat) murid species.
(13) Mouse thymic virus (MTLV; ICTV designation murid herpesvirus 3) infects developing T lymphocytes of neonatal mice, causing thymic necrosis and acute immunosuppression.
(14) This report documents 12 new host and several distributional records for Eimeria species from murid rodents in Arizona, Texas, and Utah.
(15) The ultrasonic calls of 10 species of murid rodents including 3 strains of house mice are described and the significance of interspecific similarities and differences is discussed.
(16) This variation in morphology of the female reproductive tract appears to complement that of the excurrent ducts, accessory sex glands and external genitalia of males of these species of Australian murid rodents.
(17) The latter combination, and similar standard measures of copulatory behavior, have been reported for Acomys cahirinus, a murid that frequently shows more than 1 ejaculation.
(18) A comparison of homologous coding sequences from murids and humans revealed that their different compositional distributions are due to differences in GC levels in all three codon positions, particularly of genes located at both ends of the distribution.
(19) Mouse thymic virus (MTLV;ICTV designation murid herpesvirus 3) infects developing T lymphocytes of neonatal mice, causing thymic necrosis and acute immunosuppression.
(20) All eleven cricetid species, examined in this investigation, produced an off-white crystalline precipitate in their urine when deprived of water, whereas not one murid examined did so.