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C. elegans . The presence of glyoxylate pathway enzymes in Meloidogyne L2 provides experimental support for the model describing this larval stage as the functional equivalent of the C. elegans dauer larva [ 41 ] . These ESTs and their corresponding cDNA clones will be useful reagents for the further study of the glyoxylate pathway in different stages of the Meloidogyne life cycle.
Likewise, the E. coli trpC encodes the equivalent of B. subtilis TrpC and TrpF, and the E. coli gene fusion has been re-designated trpC• trpF.
This is the cyberspace equivalent of hanging a sign around someone's neck saying "Scientologist"--or "child molester," "bedwetter," whatever.
The etymological game being what it is--( requiescat in ) pace John Ciardi--I fully expect someone to come up with an origin for cute as a button that identifies it with the six adorable daughters of some 17th-century Londoner named Button or, just to make it more complicated, a corruption of the expression *acute as a bouton in which bouton means `stud with a sharp point'--in other words, originally equivalent to sharp as a tack .
Two examples of name changes which I find harder to accept are the new names for what used to be called Ivory Coast and Burma . Côte d'Ivoire, of course, is the literal French equivalent of Ivory Coast, and in other European languages that country has traditionally been called by a name which is the literal translation of the term (e.g.