(n.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thin-sectioned, negatively stained, and freeze-etched preparations of Nitrosocystis oceanus cytomembranes were compared.
(2) Enzymatic assays of cell-free extracts of the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosocystis oceanus failed to establish that the biochemical basis of its obligate autotrophy stemmed solely from a metabolic defect.
(3) Reductive pentose phosphate cycle in Nitrosocystis oceanus.
(4) It is concluded that N. oceanus incorporates CO(2) primarily via the reductive pentose phosphate cycle.
(5) 1966.-Assays in cell-free extracts of Nitrosocystis oceanus, a marine chemoautotrophic bacterium, have demonstrated the presence of all of the enzymes of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle, with activities high enough to account for the normal growth rate of the cells.
(6) At least one species of ammonia oxidizer, Nitrosococcus oceanus, exhibits a Km for CH4 oxidation similar to that of methanotrophs.
(7) [U-14C]Acetylene generated by this method has been used to inactivate ammonia monooxygenase in three species of autotrophic nitrifying bacteria: Nitrosomonas europaea, Nitrosococcus oceanus, and Nitrosolobus multiformis.
Tethys
Definition:
(n.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter Lilley, a former minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, was one of only four MPs to vote against the Climate Change Act, and has been a frequent contributor to climate-sceptic forums, as well as being vice-chairman of oil company Tethys Petroleum.
(2) Phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of each species group suggests an ancient Tethys Sea-circum-Pacific origin and evolution.
(3) Meanwhile, speculation that as the senior Tory on the Committee Lilley could have been in a position to serve as interim chair prompted green campaigners to again highlight his publicly declared role as a director of Tethys Petroleum.
(4) The discovery of high levels of prostaglandin (PG) 1,15-lactones of both the E and F series and their co-existence with PGs has been recently described in the opisthobranch mollusc Tethys fimbria.
(5) Prostaglandin-(PG) 1,15-lactones and, in smaller amounts, free acids, were isolated from both the mantle and the dorso-lateral appendices of the opisthobranch mollusc Tethys fimbria.