(1) 4 species of Mallophaga (2 Amblycera, Menacanthus eurysternus and Myrsidea sp., and 2 Ischnocera, Brueelia chayanh and Sturnidoecus affinis) coexist on the body of Common Myna, Acridotheres tristis.
(2) The sequence hybridizes to the telomeres of all chromosomes but the Y of D. tristis and produces a ladderlike hybridization pattern with filterbound genomic DNA of D. tristis digested with Eco RI or Pst I with the hybridization bands at fragment lengths in multiples of 181 bp.
(3) Thus, three clusters of closely related species could be identified: obscura (D. obscura, D. ambigua, and D. tristis), African (D. kitumensis and D. microlabis), and subobscura (D. subobscura, D. madeirensis and D. guanche), with D. subsilvestris standing apart.
(4) The optimum pH for pepsin was found to be 1.5 for P. krameri and 1.8 for both L. schach and A. tristis.
(5) The pepsin activity is higher in the proventriculus of the carnivorous L. schach and the omnivorous A. tristis than in the frugivorous P. krameri.
(6) Drosophila obscura, D. ambigua and D. tristis were found to be very closely related and thus forming a cluster in which D. ambigua occupies an intermediate position between the other two species.
(7) The histomorphology of the gastric apparatus, the pepsin level and the optimum pH for pepsin were investigated in Psittacula krameri (frugivore), Lanius schach (carnivore) and Acridotheres tristis (omnivore) species of birds.
(8) A case of human envenomization by a plectreurid spider, Plectreurys tristis Simon, is reported for the first time.
(9) Three species, D. obscura, D. ambigua, and D. tristis, are closely related and form a cluster.
(10) The gizzard is larger in A. tristis than in P. krameri and A. tritis than in the carnivore L. schach.
(11) The villi are more developed in A. tristis than in L. schach and P. krameri.
(12) Thyroidectomy in Myna, Acridotheres tristis, increased the levels of cholesterol, ascorbic acid and decreased the activity of the adrenal.
(13) Drosophila obscura displays an element B polymorphism for a pericentric inversion for which D. ambigua is fixed for one gene arrangement and D. tristis for the other.
(14) Adrenal glands of eight Indian species of birds, namely Columba livia, Passer domesticus, Corvus splendens, Acridotheres tristis, Acridotheres ginginianus, Milvus migrans, Francolinus pondicerianus and Bubulcus ibis were examined during the sexually active and inactive phases of their annual reproductive cycles.
(15) A sequence comparison among four independently cloned copies of the family from D. tristis and another homologous sequence from D. obscura, found by chance, shows a one to six per cent variation in basepair composition.
(16) Five differentiated clusters were found for the obscura subgroup species, one Nearctic, represented by Drosophila pseudoobscura, and four Palearctic, two grouping the related triads of species Drosophila subobscura, Drosophila madeirensis, Drosophila obscura, Drosophila subsilvestris, and two more represented by one species each, Drosophila bifasciata, and Drosophila tristis.
(17) The total mtDNA size range for the obscura subgroup species was from 15.5 kb for D. pseudoobscura to 17.1 for D. tristis.
(18) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of ovarian surface epithelium during the sexual cycle of seasonally breeding birds: crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(19) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of the primordial and early growing oocytes in the ovaries of crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(20) A correlative morphological and cytochemical study has been made of the nucleoli and nuclear bodies in the growing oocytes of the crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
Trusty
Definition:
(superl.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
(superl.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
(superl.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.
Example Sentences:
(1) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."
(2) In such destructive form Ighalo needs only the slightest sniff at goal and typically his trusty sidekick, Troy Deeney, was the provider, heading down a crossfield pass from Almen Abdi.
(3) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(4) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
(5) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(6) In the literature exist investigations made to extensive series of patients, with premalignant oral lesions or suspicious of malignancy, in which it has been employed toluidine blue (TB), to verify the trustiness of this method as a resource for support in clinical diagnosis.
(7) It is urgent to create a national trusty and dynamic structure to make possible the organization and coordination of CME and respective evaluation.
(8) Five male establishment trusties with top security clearance were locked in a room for four months and produced a unanimous report recommending some changes, a few of which have made it into law in the USA Freedom Act.
(9) Southampton are without a manager and start pre-season back on trusty square one but still the rumours fly.
(10) According to trusty Wikipedia, Leighton has three children, Steel has three and Rake has four (and five stepchildren).
(11) Part of the reason that we aimed low was our trusty old friend – the Lili model (Leading Indicator for Leading Indicators).
(12) They were cheered on by the trusties of the British press – a fertile recruiting ground for British intelligence and the CIA over many years.
(13) Labour ISC trusty George Howarth implied that the ISC hadn't – indeed, had only examined the issue after the Guardian's exposé in June, which he deemed legitimate but "unwise".
(14) You spend a couple of hours getting to know your trusty steed, learning how to handle him or her, before setting off on a mapped route along the Rota Vicentina, staying in pre-booked guesthouses or hotels en route.
(15) And, in the case of Molly Drake, a trusty outlet for a side of her personality rarely revealed by her outwardly sunny disposition.
(16) Back in London, my trusty e-cig became the object of increasing curiosity.
(17) The Tories' starchy blue "Invitation to Join the Government of Britain" reminds me of a book of trusty, well-established hymns.
(18) For those trusty conservative cliches about getting on and getting ahead are unravelling.
(19) He smiles as he lugs his trusty axe into a waiting car.
(20) "I often," he says, "found myself in a position to discover more about the real lives of stars when my trusty tape recorder was off…" What notes he made are on "scrappy bits of paper" whose relevance only he can understand.