(n.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The virus species should carry the name of the family, super-family, suborder, or order naturally infected by this virus.
(2) Although the camel belongs to the suborder Artiodactyla, the greater omentum exhibits a striking similarity to that of Perissodactyla.
(3) These results strongly suggest that (a) the vascular compartment is important in the regulation of intra-islet cellular interactions and further suggest that (b) the order of islet cellular perfusion and interaction is from the B cell core outward to the mantle, and (c) the mantle is further subordered with the majority of D cells downstream or distal to the majority of A cells.
(4) Since the artiodactyl suborders diverged in the mid-Eocene some 50 million years ago, the fact that representatives of some of them show no differences in their cytochromes c (cow, sheep, and hog), while another exhibits as many as three such differences, verifies that even in relatively closely related lines of descent the rate at which cytochrome c changes in the course of evolution is not constant.
(5) However, suborders specificity relationship could easily be detected.
(6) In the present study the comparative ultrastructure of the definitive chorio-allantoic placental barrier has been studied in considerable detail in six species of bats, representing six different families and both suborders of Chiroptera, by electron microscopy, and these species illustrate different kinds of interhaemal membranes met with among bats.
(7) The suborder Prosimii appears to be a paraphyletic taxon, based on the retention of numerous primitive character states in tarsiers and strepsirhines.
(8) For example, hummingbirds and swifts, which are usually considered as two suborders of Apodiformes, are unique among the birds tested in having an enzyme that moves 63 percent as fast as the chicken enzyme.
(9) The organization of the fiber layer in the retinas of fishes belonging to the suborder Osteoglossoidei appears to be unique amongst bony fishes.
(10) Necropsy revealed extensive degeneration and inflammation in the lumbosacral part of the spinal cord, caused by a nematode larva of the suborder Strongylina, probably L4 or L5 of Strongylus vulgaris.
(11) Epinephrine is the major catecholamine in the Salientia while norepinephrine and epinephrine concentrations are roughly equivalent in suborders of Caudata.
(12) If the primate suborder Haplorhini (anthropoids, omomyids, tarsiids) is monophyletic, the phylogenetic position of Shoshonius requires that anthropoids and Tarsius diverged by at least the early Eocene, some 15 million years before the first appearance of anthropoids in the fossil record.
(13) Retinoids in the compound eyes of nymphs and adult dragonflies in 11 families of the 3 suborders were extracted by the oxime method, and analysed by high performance liquid chromatography.
(14) Malaria, the number one disease in the world, is caused by intracellular protozoans belonging to the Subphylum, Sporozoa; Suborder, Haemosphoridia; and Family, Plasmodiidae.
(15) one for the anteaters and one for the tree sloths and armadillos, indicating a probable subdivision of the true edentates into two suborders.
(16) Frogs that are morphologically similar enough to merit taxonomic distinction at only the species level often exhibit differences in the serological properties of their albumins larger than those usually seen between mammals placed in distinct families or suborders.
(17) These are not or only rarely observed outside this rodent suborder.
(18) Descriptions of the sporogonic and gametogonic stages of this coccidian are given and compared with the suborders Adeleina and Eimeriina which either have developmental stages in invertebrates, isosporan-type oocysts or have been reported to be mechanically (passively) transmitted by mites.
(19) This is the first report of mites of the suborder Mesostigmata attached in the oral cavity of a mammal.
(20) In immunodiffusion, when using the monospecific antiserum, immunoprecipitates were present only in species' belonging to suborder Ruminantia.
Taxonomic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(2) Bordetella pertussis and Bacillus anthracis, two taxonomically distinct bacteria, secrete adenylate cyclase toxins that are activated by the eukaryotic protein calmodulin.
(3) The present classification of vasculitis has several objections, based on the following aspects: 1) It does not take into account taxonomic rules; 2) It uses criteria which helps to cover up; 3) It uses generic terms without a specific meaning; 4) Lack of clinical interest.
(4) As an extension to the variety of existing techniques using polymorphic DNA markers, the Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique may be used in molecular ecology to determine taxonomic identity, assess kinship relationships, analyse mixed genome samples, and create specific probes.
(5) Authors pointed on etiologic connections between particular clinical syndroms in AIDS and microbial, parasitic and viral agents belonging to different taxonomic groups.
(6) Disclosure of the 5'-terminal sequence of the HCV genome would facilitate its taxonomic classification, and contribute toward immunological diagnosis of infection and development of vaccines.
(7) The threat or risk of the child involves a substantial taxonomic variety, therefore the author tries to define the entire area by terms such as risk factor, individual at risk, group at risk and risk situation, to assess their content and extent and their mutual relations.
(8) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(9) The advantages of long-term preservation of suspensions of mycobacteria by storage at -70 degrees C established in earlier studies are reinforced by present evidence that freezer storage does not alter key taxonomic features used to identify mycobacteria.
(10) Fourteen Streptomyces strains from various numerical taxonomic classes and representatives of three other genera of actinomycetes were studied using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (IND-ELISA) to determine their serological relationships.
(11) Our goal was to encourage analysis and synthesis rather than memorization; evaluating such higher taxonomic levels of education is extraordinarily difficult.
(12) Numerical methods have been employed to determine the taxonomic value of a number of microbiological, hydrobiological and chemical characteristics of water purity either in current use or proposed.
(13) A phasics were classified by their test scores according to taxonomic criteria, independently from localization.
(14) The popular concept of "marihuana" is actually based on the chemical characteristics of the plant Cannabis, rather than on the taxonomic classification.
(15) Alternative taxonomic structures require careful scrutiny and comparison to establish whether one structure will meet the needs of the profession or whether multiple structures of nursing diagnoses relative to outcomes are required.
(16) The taxonomically close relationship between lizards and snakes, which together constitute the Squamata, is reflected in a similar distribution of DA fibers and varicosities to the dorsal ventricular ridge and the lateral cortex, and in the limited number of CSF-contacting DA neurons in the hypothalamus.
(17) In Stage 2, the conditional stimuli (CSs) were one of eight words, four reinforced (CS+) and four unreinforced (CS-), with taxonomic category (animals vs. musical instruments) as the discriminandum, and different subjects were given semantic, physical, or no additional CS processing tasks.
(18) A detailed taxonomic description of the developmental stages of female and male mite is presented.
(19) The discrepancy, and the importance of electrokaryotyping as a taxonomic tool, are discussed.
(20) The Archaea, designated since 1979 as a separate Super-Kingdom (the highest taxonomic order), are a highly novel group of microorganisms which look much like bacteria but have many molecular and genetic characteristics that are more typical of eukaryotes.