(n. pl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thymus gland of the adult viviparous lizard, Chalcides ocellatus (Reptilia, Sauria, Scincidae) undergoes conspicuous morphological changes in relation to gestational period.
(2) Autoradiography was used to demonstrate the genesis and migration of cells in the nucleus sphericus of perinatal, juvenile and adult lizards, Podarcis hispanica (Sauria, Lacertidae).
(3) n. parasitizes the Australian lizards Egernia cunninghami and E. striolata (Sauria: Scincidae).
(4) Re-examination of tissue sections from four Takydromus tachydromoides (Sauria: Lacertidae) naturally infected with Plasmodium sasai found liver parenchymal cells, containing uninucleate parasites which may correspond to the hypnozoite stage of primate malaria parasites, schizonts and segmenters in parenchymal cells, and hepatic macrophages which contained numerous schizonts.
(5) This enzyme, which we name Helodermatine, is the first purified from Sauria with kallikrein-like properties.
(6) The extended girth is one of the few important and obvious symptoms in lizards (Sauria).
Saurian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria.
(n.) One of the Sauria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mammals examined included 3 eutherian, 2 marsupial and a monotreme species and the reptiles 2 saurian, 1 crocodilian and 1 testudine species.
(2) Four strains of L. tarentolae, the four other supposed saurian Leishmania species, three mammalian leishmanias, T. platydactyli and four other trypanosomes, T. cyclops (Malaysian macaque), T. conorrhini (Hawaiian reduviid bug), T. cruzi (man) and T. lewisi (feral rat) were analyzed for their contents of sterols and phosphoglyceride fatty acyl groups.
(3) The venoms of 22 species of arthropods, saurians, elapids and crotalids were studied concerning the phospholipase activity and the presence of a direct and an indirect lytic effect upon human red cells.
(4) A hypothesis is presented to describe the life cycle of P. sasai, which may be characteristic of other saurian malaria parasites.
(5) While the genus Rhabdochoma, parasite of the intestine of fresh-water fishes, underwent a very similar, but more or less pronounced, morphological evolution, it became adapted to many different hosts: Sea-fishes, Saurians, Mammals and to many locations.
(6) Saurian malaria species which produce schizonts smaller than normal erythrocyte nuclei, with 4-8 merozoietes and gametocytes equal to or smaller than erythrocyte nuclei in size, parasitizing hosts of the lizard families Scincidae, Iguanidae and Teiidae in the Neotropics are considered to be Plasmodium minasense Carini and Rudolph, 1912.
(7) This preliminary investigation has brought to light differences in GC percentages and in the shape of melting curves between chelonian DNA and that from saurians and ophidians.
(8) Thus, two immunologically distinct CaBPs, mol wt 10,000 and 28,000, are present in the adult mouse nephron; whereas, kidneys of adult rats, chickens, and saurian reptiles apparently contain significant levels of only 28,000 mol wt CaBP.
(9) Saurian malaria parasites in the Caribbean were previously represented by only two species, Plasmodium azurophilum and P. floridense.
(10) The cerebral tubulin of the saurian Phymatura palluma and of the mammalian Myotis chiloensis instead, were not depolymerized in these conditions.
(11) The DNA base composition was studied in 9 reptilian species (4 chelonians, 3 saurians, and 2 ophidians) by the thermal denaturation method.
(12) The characters studied show a non-random distribution in the classification and show also some consistency with the geographical distribution of the extant Saurians.
(13) It is suggested, in view of reports of amastigotes in circulating blood cells of hosts belonging to 5 genera, collected in 5 countries from India to France, that saurian Leishmania may behave simply as parasites of circulating blood cells, thus illustrating an early stage in the adaptation of leishmanias to the vertebrate host.
(14) Saurian Plasmodium populations previously identified as P. tropiduri from Panama are described as subspecies or distinct species.
(15) These characteristics distinguish P. holaspi from all other saurian Plasmodium species.
(16) T. platydactyli and L. tarentolae are synonymized and the present status of saurian Leishmania parasites is discussed.
(17) Eight strains of a lizard Leishmania species, L. tarentolae, were compared with four other saurian species [L. hoogstrali, L. adleri, L. agamae and Leishmania sp.
(18) In the present case, among the Saurians, the characters chosen appeared early and cannot be referred to any adaptation bound to an evolutive progress.