(1) A significant proportion of the soluble protein of the organic matrix of mollusk shells is composed of a repeating sequence of aspartic acid separated by either glycine or serine.
(2) Low concentrations of cercaricides are toxic both for cercariae and parthenites from the liver of mollusks and for freely swimming cercariae.
(3) The neuroendocrine bag cell neurons of the marine mollusk Aplysia produce prolonged inhibition that lasts for more than 2 hr.
(4) Changes in the membrane properties of the oocyte of the mollusk, Patella vulgata, were analyzed following the induction of meiosis reinitiation by paleopedial ganglia extract or by the weak base ammonia.
(5) Fossil glycoproteins of the soluble organic matrix are present in an 80-million-year-old mollusk shell from the Late Cretaceous Period.
(6) 12-Hydroperoxy-5,8,10,14-eicosatetraenoic acid (12-HPETE), a lipoxygenase product, simulates the synaptic responses produced by the modulatory transmitter, histamine, and the neuroactive peptide, Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amide (FMRFamide), in identified neurons of the marine mollusk, Aplysia californica (Piomelli, D., Shapiro, E., Feinmark, S. J., and Schwartz, J. H. (1987) J. Neurosci.
(7) A number of observations, as listed below, suggested a cholinergic basis for inhibitory interactions between photoreceptors of the eye in the nudibranch mollusk Hermissenda crassicornis.
(8) Some vital functions of mollusks (nutrition, oviposition, and support substratum) are closely related to vegetation.
(9) Localization of catecholamines in the nervous system of 12 species of Trematodes parthenitae from marine mollusks has been studied using the method of glyoxilic acid-induced fluorescence.
(10) We tested this idea using the simple nervous system of the marine mollusk, Aplysia californica.
(11) Attempts to introduce infectious or foreign material into oysters and other bivalve mollusks usually involve force or trauma because of immediate, prolonged adduction of the tightly closing valves.
(12) Chromatin organization in the sperm of the bivalve mollusks results from the interaction between a discrete number of protamine-like proteins (PL) and DNA.
(13) Psilotrema simillimum has one intermediate host, the mollusk Bithynia leachi.
(14) Appropriate preparation of food, control of mollusks and planarians, and elimination of rodents are important measures in limiting the further spread of eosinophilic meningitis caused by A. cantonensis.
(15) were found in the land mollusks Bradybaena duplocincta and Jaminia potaniniana asiatica collected on the slopes of Tien-Shan.
(16) Diagnosis of neoplasia in the living mollusk was achieved rapidly and accurately by cytologic examination of circulating blood.
(17) The small hydrotechnique objects, such as irrigation and drainage systems, fish cultivating ponds, isolate and cascade artificial water reservoirs, channels considerably change the ecological conditions of mollusks of the genus Codiella, the first intermediate host of Opisthorchis felineus.
(18) The control measures consisted of the prohibition of the harvest and sale of all bivalve mollusks as well as a public warning to avoid the consumption of such shellfish.
(19) It is expedient to use mollusks, both for testing of N-nitroso compounds and as a biologic indicator of hydrospheric pollution.
(20) Octopamine may have functions of its own in the central nervous system of mollusks.
Nerite
Definition:
(n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(2) We have begun genetic analysis of the neritic, marine heterotroph Crypthecodinium (Gyrodinium) cohnii by means of motility mutants that show complementation shortly after zygote formation, permitting identification of heterozygotes.
(3) Neurites extended faster on laminin than on collagen, but the P30 nerites were less than half as long as E21 neurites on both substrata.
(4) The medium was satisfactorily used for the investigation of the vertical distribution of bacteria in seawater from the surface to 1,000 m depth of western north Pacific central water as well as the neritic region of Japan.
(5) An ERT supporter has snapped up www.nerit.gr, and is using it to broadcast - wait for it - the latest signal from ERT itself, as it continues to defy closure: Photograph: www.nerit.gr Yiannis Î’aboulias (@YiannisBab) Greek government was going to rename #ERT as Nerit.
(6) GW 6.40pm BST In something of a blunder, it appears the Greek government failed to register the domain name for its new, slimmed-down broadcaster, New Hellenic Radio Internet and Television, or NERIT.
(7) The evidence strongly supports the neritic or estuarine origin and habitat for V. parahaemolyticus.
(8) A quantitative capillary assay is described for measuring chemoreception in the neritic and littoral unicellular alga Dunaliella tertiolecta.
(9) Distribution of bacteria in oceanic and neritic seawater was determined using the membrane filter method.
(10) The comparative ultrastructural analysis of the digestive tubules of mussels sampled in a strongly hydrocarbons polluted neritic area and in another one reputed unpolluted, revealed important adulterations in the first one, namely that cells of digestive tubules and hyalinocytes within digestive gland display "neoplastic" disorders.