(n.) A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both phylogenetic and phenetic distance analyses suggest that Alu sequences within the alpha and beta globin gene clusters arose close to the time of simian and prosimian primate divergence (about 50-60 MYA).
(2) To compare biochemical differences between bivalves with and without endosymbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria, specimens of Solemya velum, a bivalve species known to contain bacterial endosymbionts, and the symbiont-free soft-shelled clam Mya arenaria, were collected from the same subtidal reducing sediments during October and November 1988.
(3) Mya collected at Dennysville had pericardial mesotheliomas and teratoid siphon anomalies in addition to gonadal neoplasms.
(4) The limited genetic variability of human mtDNA has been explained in terms of a recent common genetic ancestry, thus implying that all modern-population mtDNAs originated from a single woman who lived in Africa less than 0.2 Mya.
(5) Among those in the waiting room was Carmen Centeno, with three of her five daughters: Jayne, Mya and Anastasia, who is eight months old.
(6) Elapid alpha-toxins (alpha-bungarotoxin, alpha-cobratoxin and crude Bungarus caeruleus venom) do not affect the myocardial nicotinic ACh receptors of the following bivalve molluscs: Mercenaria mercenaria, Chione cancellata, Mya arenaria, Mytilus edulis, Rangia cuneata and Crassostrea virginica.
(7) However, the progeny virions could not reinfect fCD4-negative Crandell feline kidney cells but could infect fCD4-positive MYA-1 cells.
(8) As these families are not orthologous with the Mhc class II beta-chain-encoding gene families of birds, the different mammalian families must have diverged after the separation of birds and mammals approximately 250 Mya but before the radiation of placental mammals (60-80 Mya).
(9) All FIV strains used, the Petaluma strain and several new isolates, were highly cytopathic to MYA-1.
(10) The titer of feline immunodeficiency virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and the presence of infectious virus in plasma was investigated over 20 week period in 8 experimentally infected cats, 3 uninfected cats and 2 naturally infected cats by end point dilution cultures using a feline T-lymphoblastoid cell line (MYA-1).
(11) Soft shell clams, Mya arenaria, develop leukemias in the hemolymph which are fatal.
(12) The drosophiloid lineage is strictly endemic to Hawaii and originated little more than 10 Mya, according to the alcohol dehydrogenase molecular clock.
(13) A phylogenetic comparison of the psi eta-globin DNA sequence of the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) to orthologous sequences from other primates provides evidence for an evolutionarily recent (less than 17 million years ago (MYA] insertion of a truncated L1 LINE (long interspersed repetitive element).
(14) Molecular clock calculations that accommodated lineage variations in rates of molecular evolution yielded hominoid branching times that ranged from 17-19 million years ago (MYA) for the separation of gibbon from the other hominoids to 5-7 MYA for the separation of chimpanzees from humans.
(15) Thus, the DP region seems to have originated through a recombinational event which brought together a DQB gene and a DRA gene (perhaps approximately 120 Mya).
(16) They’re already struggling to make a life for themselves and they’re now being knocked back even further.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thomas Radcliffe from MYA hands out provisions from the food bank.
(17) An Alu SINE (short interspersed element), found 3 kb downstream of the poly(A) addition site, arose less than 40 MYA subsequent to the divergence of platyrrhinies (New World monkeys) from catarrhines (humans, apes, and Old World monkeys).
(18) Herbicide contamination is the only common denominator identified at all three sites where Mya have been found with gonadal neoplasms.
(19) Our analysis supports the African origin of modern man, but we found that the ancestral female from which all extant human mtDNAs originated lived in a time span of 0.3-0.8 Mya.
(20) Part of NLD’s policy is to defend human rights and democracy,” said Mya Aye, a rejected Muslim candidate from NLD, “but rejecting Muslim candidates from their party is rejecting the rights of five million Muslim minorities.” In her first trip ever to Rakhine, Suu Kyi will campaign for three days in Taungup, Thandwe and Gwa towns in southern part of the state, where the NLD support is the strongest.