(n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although most previous studies have assumed that Silurana is the sister group of Xenopus, recent morphological work suggests that Silurana is more closely related both to the South American genus Pipa and to the African genera Hymenochirus and Pseudhymenochirus than it is to Xenopus.
(2) Hadopi was the same breed as the now comatose American Pipa ( Protect Intellectual Property Act ) and Sopa ( Stop Online Piracy Act ).
(3) Mutant pIPB showed 10% secretion, while 60%-70% secretion was observed for pIPA.
(4) The biology and behaviour of Pipa carvalhoi are compared to that of other pipid frogs, and it is suggested that the specialized breeding biology of the genus Pipa evolved as an adaptation to the life in small ponds and ditches which are rich in nutrients but poor in oxygen.
(5) Feeding, mating behaviour, communication, breeding biology, and development of Pipa carvalhoi are described.
(6) The filter apparatus of Pipa is somewhat reduced and seems modified for the retention of relatively large (20+ microns) particles.
(7) Special interest groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) who helped write the resoundingly rejected Sopa and Pipa internet censorship bill are literally paying for a seat at the table, shaping the TPP to make sure it prioritises the profits and power of multinational corporations over people’s basic online rights to communicate and express themselves.
(8) Within hours of the unprecedented assault, Sopa , the Stop Online Piracy Act, was dead and a sister act, Pipa, a neat acronym for the tortuously titled Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act) was sunk too .
(9) We have applied the Pipas-McMahon algorithm based on free energy calculations to the search for a 5S RNA base-pair structure common to all known sequences.
(10) Outdated units of Adsol blood, were divided into two aliquots and incubated with equal volumes of a solution of 100 mM pyruvate and inosine, 103 mM phosphate and 5 mM adenine (PIPA) or 0.9% saline.
(11) Two years on from success against Sopa and Pipa in the US this mobilised community is taking on the next front in the battle for digital rights.
(12) We previously showed (M. J. Tevethia, J. M. Pipas, T. Kierstead, and C. Cole, Virology 162:76-89, 1988) that sequences downstream of amino acid 626 are not required for immortalization of primary MEFs.
(13) Use of PIPA produced greater-than-normal levels of adenosine triphosphate in the preserved erythrocytes.
(14) The main radioactive component in blood was 123I-PIPA for any species and the urinary components were metabolic conjugates of 123I-PIPA.
(15) In 2012, Swartz was one of the guiding lights of the movement against a pair of US laws, SOPA and PIPA, which threatened to damage the legal underpinning of the internet, by potentially blocking access to any site which hosted user generated content.
(16) CIC levels were analysed by means of KgB-ELISA (conglutinin binding enzyme linked immunosorbent assay), C1qB-ELISA (C1q-binding enzyme linked immunososrbent assay), RFb-ELISA (rheumatoid factor binding enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) and by PIPA (platelet 125J-labelled staphylococcal protein-A test).
(17) Last year the fans were shouting 'Pipa [Higuaín's nick-name] please stay' after we won the league in Bilbao.
(18) Swartz, an advocate for open access online, founded Demand Progress, to rally the online community against two internet censorship bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect IP Act (Pipa).
(19) Two insertion mutants, pIPA and pIPB, retained enzyme activity.
(20) Conglutinin-binding (KgB), C1q-binding (C1qB), platelet iodinated protein A test (PIPA) and RF-enzyme immunoassay (RF-EIA) gave positive results in 31%, 62%, 23% and 31% of the cases, respectively and separated cancer sera from normal blood donors (p less than 0.001).
Pupa
Definition:
(n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
(n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histolysis and pyknosis begin in the prepupa and decrease considerably in the late pupa.
(2) Changes in haemolymph protein fractions and histology, of adipose tissue has been observed in the larvae, pupae and newly emerged adults of Danais chrysippus.
(3) The description of its larvae and some additional data on the taxonomy of males, females and pupae are given.
(4) In the case of glass, Gore-tex, and Dacron, which are insoluble in the solvent of the coating solution, only a superficial layer of PUPA could be obtained.
(5) Subsequently (35-hr pupa) the DLM commences to degenerate, forming random clumps of vacuolated muscle tissue.
(6) Specific immunohistochemical staining was detected in a variety of tissue types: the embryonic CNS; a few cell bodies in the central brain of pupae; these and other cells in the central brain of adults, as well as imaginal cells in the eyes, optic lobes, and the gut.
(7) With a silkworm pupa ovary mRNA, distinctly reverase results were obtained.
(8) Acidic glycolipids from pupae were also recognized, but only by the L2 antibody 334 and IgM M-protein.
(9) Thus, one may deduce that stopped larvae could have low levels of ecdysone, and perhaps these are the ultimate physiological cause of their arrested development before the critical larva-pupa molt.
(10) After mitoses have ended in the late pupa, the cells were arrested in G2.
(11) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(12) Fractionation of hemolymph from untreated pupae provided evidence for at least one preexisting factor which stimulated the killing of Escherichia coli.
(13) The device is particularly adaptable for the separation of large numbers of pupae without mechanical injury.
(14) The presence of glycosphingolipids in the pupae of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina, was established.
(15) 62, 1157 (1958] and to relaxation data reported in mycelia of Botrytis cinerea Persoon and pupae of the tobacco cutworm (M. Yoshida and K. Nose, Agric.
(16) The mean weight of the pupae produced by the membrane-fed flies was 24.9 mg.
(17) Heat shock induces a single large puff (hs puff) near the tip of chromosome arm EL in polytene foot pad cells of fly pupae (Sarcophaga bullata).
(18) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(19) The levels of potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium in leaves, midgut contents, midgut tissue, and blood were analysed in seven developmental stages between feeding, fourth-instar larvae and new pupae of the Cecropia silkworm.
(20) Starting from a crystal-negative parental strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, we isolated certain bacteriophage-resistant mutants which showed decreased virulence in pupae of the cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia).