What's the difference between pyrophorous and pyrophorus?
Pyrophorous
Definition:
(a.) Light-producing; of or pertaining to pyrophorus.
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Pyrophorus
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead.
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(1) Eleven complementary DNA (cDNA) clones were generated from messenger RNA isolated from abdominal light organs of the bioluminescent click beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus.
(2) A recombinant baculovirus containing a luciferase gene from the click beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus, under transcriptional regulation of the polyhedrin gene promoter of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcNPV) was used to infect a Spodoptera frugiperda cell line.
(3) In studying beetle bioluminescence in the early 1960s, Dr. McElroy and his colleagues found that the Jamaican click beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus, was capable of emitting different colours of light.
(4) We have recently cloned other cDNAs that code for luciferases from the bioluminescent click beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus, in the superfamily Elateroidea.
(5) An additional tenfold increase in light production was obtained when luciferase genes from the North American firefly (Photinus pyralis) or a click beetle (Pyrophorus plagiophtalamus) were introduced in a similar fashion into B. subtilis.