What's the difference between myomorph and rodent?

Myomorph


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Myomorpha.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spalax ribonuclease shares several amino acid residues with other myomorph rodent species.
  • (2) Molecular data indicate that caviomorphs (guinea-pig-like rodents) and myomorphs (rat-like rodents) are not monophyletic.
  • (3) Under the assumptions that the guinea pig lineage and the myomorph (mouse, rat, and hamster) lineage diverged 70-100 million years (Myr) ago and that the rate of nucleotide substitution has been constant in all these lineages since their divergence, the date of the mouse-rat split is estimated to be between 20 and 29 Myr ago, which is considerably older than the date (approximately 12 Myr) suggested by available rodent fossils and considerably younger than the date (approximately 35 Myr) suggested by Wilson and colleagues.
  • (4) From the comparison of the sequence with those of other mammalian species we found that Spalax diverged from the myomorph rodent branch before the divergence of the Muridae (mouse, rat) from the Cricetidae (hamster, muskrat).
  • (5) During the period of 1959-1985 the activity of the foci of anthrax in Voronezh Province was found to be related to the state of some meteorological factors in the previous year and the number of murine [correction of myomorphous] rodents in hayricks and stacks of straw in early spring of the current year, this relationship being stable and statistically significant.
  • (6) Structural changes occurring in the embryo and endometrium during implantation in the Chinese hamster are described for the first time in this report and are compared to those described for some other myomorph rodents.
  • (7) However, the data indicate that myomorph and caviomorph genes evolve, on average, about two times faster than their human counterparts.
  • (8) On the basis of 18 protein sequences totaling 2,413 aligned amino acid sites, it is suggested that the guinea pigs and the myomorphs (rat-like rodents) are not monophyletic.
  • (9) One involves the use of [3H]thymidine to label the nuclei of photoreceptors which are dividing for 1 week after birth in myomorphic retina.
  • (10) It is also suggested that claims of large differences in the rate of molecular evolution between guinea pigs and myomorphs may have been exaggerated in many cases as a result of an erroneous phylogenetic position for the guinea pig.
  • (11) As these animals regularly participate in the feeding cycle of the ubiquitous wood tick Ixodes ricinus, the main vector of the tick-borne meningoencephalitis virus, it is infered that they (the hare being excluded in this study), apart from myomorphous mammals, play an important role in the transmission chain of the tick-borne meningoencephalitis virus in the respective natural foci of this zoonosis.
  • (12) In myomorphs and sciumorphs, the orbitoparietal and orbitonasal commissures are present.
  • (13) The relation between cranial volume and body length was examined in 45 species of myomorph rodents to determine how accurately the former can be estimated from the latter.
  • (14) All myomorph rodent sequences evolved faster than those of other mammals, an effect being most pronounced for the rat sequence.
  • (15) b) The manner in which host migration interacts with the parasite is very complex and a few examples will be considered, mainly from the caviomorphs, the sciuromorphs and the myomorphs.
  • (16) Rather, the evolutionary lineage leading to the guinea pig seems to have branched off prior to the divergence among myomorphs, lagomorphs, primates, chiropterans, artiodactyls, and carnivores.
  • (17) If true, then the myomorphs and the caviomorphs do not constitute a natural clade, and the Caviomorpha (or the Histricomorpha) should be elevated in taxonomical rank and regarded as a separate mammalian order distinct from the Rodentia.
  • (18) Head plus body length (HBL), tail length (TL) and body weight (BW) were measured on two species of small myomorph rodents, Mus musculus and Peromyscus leucopus, throughout adult life.
  • (19) Salivary amylase zymograms of five myomorphic rodents are compared and evolutionary implications are discussed.
  • (20) A most parsimonious tree of the myomorph rodent RNase shows that after the divergence of rat and mouse, the ribonuclease of rat accumulated substitutions at a rate 2.5--4.3 times as high as the rates in other branches of the tree and 23 times as high as the average rate in the Bovidae ribonuclease evolution.

Rodent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
  • (v. t.) Gnawing.
  • (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
  • (n.) One of the Rodentia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
  • (2) This is the first clear example of activation of the K-ras gene by ethylating agents in a rodent lung tumor system.
  • (3) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.
  • (4) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
  • (5) This model of protective immunity in a Brugia-susceptible small rodent may provide a useful system for identification of molecularly defined filarial-protective immunogens.
  • (6) The receptor pattern observed in tumors does not support the hypothesis previously raised in the case of chemically induced colonic tumors in rodents.
  • (7) It is concluded that these rodent studies do not implicate any specific inhalational anesthetic agent in fetal toxicity, and that the effects of additional factors, such as stress, must be considered.
  • (8) In the course of routinely performed subchronic toxicity studies with laboratory rodents, functional neurotoxicity, i.e.
  • (9) Particularly striking is the distribution of CpG dinucleotides within human and rodent APRT genes.
  • (10) There was less of an increase following a blood meal infected with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
  • (11) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
  • (12) The differences in immunoreactivity between rodent and human amyloid plaques are consistent with other findings showing that cellular genes, not infectious purified prions, encode PrP.
  • (13) These products, as well as several synthetic intermediates, were evaluated for antifilarial activity against Molinema dessetae either in vivo in its natural host, the rodent Proechimys oris, or in vitro by a new test using cultures of the infective larvae.
  • (14) An increased neuronal activity was obtained by exercising the rats in a commercial rodent treadmill a couple of hours per day for 14 days.
  • (15) In a series of experiments we found that 1) growth rates of hamsters offered the Lyric diet alone or in conjunction with the standard rodent diet exceeded those of hamsters offered only the standard rodent diet.
  • (16) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
  • (17) With repeated administrations, rodents become increasingly sensitive to the stimulant properties of amphetamine, a phenomenon termed sensitization.
  • (18) Although the overall rate of thymidine incorporation was lower than that for rodent cells, human hepatocytes were sensitive to lower concentrations of these growth factors, and the degree of stimulation was similar.
  • (19) Daily cocaine injection into rodents produces a progressive increase in the motor stimulant effect of acute cocaine administration.
  • (20) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.

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