Example sentences for: crayfish

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  • The amino acid sequences of the Runt domains of all each of the collected genes, together with two previously described sequences from the spider Cupiennius salei [ 15 ] , a sequence from the crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus , and one from the nematode Meloidogyne hapla , were aligned using Clustal W [ 16 ] , as shown in Figure 2. Functionally, the Runt domain is required both for DNA binding and for interaction with its heterodimeric partner (the beta subunit), which serves to allosterically enhance the DNA binding of the Runt domain [ 1 14 ] . Superposition of the alignment and the known crystal structure of mouse Runx1 [ 14 17 ] reveals that residues that make either direct or indirect contact with DNA are invariant (marked by asterisks in Fig.

  • Beyond that, low bootstrap values prohibit a confident assessment of evolutionary branching order of the arthropod Runx paralogues, and it is not clear whether they are monophyletic (although the position of the crayfish gene suggests a deep duplication event within in the insect/crustacean clade at least).

  • For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .

  • This fascination became a legitimate area of scientific inquiry in 1712, when the French scientist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur published his seminal work on crayfish limb and claw regeneration (Réaumur 1712).

  • So, for instance, the names of the farmed freshwater crayfish, koonac , and marron , have only short histories of usage in English, coincident with their utility, though they were first recorded in the 19th century.


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