How To Use Chitin In A Sentence
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Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
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Obtected: applied to pupae when they are covered with a chitinous case which confines and conceals all appendages, though their outlines may be marked on the surface: see free, and coarctate.
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It would stand at least four meters tall, if it had enough room to stand comfortably in, its leathery gray skin was covered in patches of chitin, and its mouth was beaked.
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The natural biological organism derived materials included mainly collagen, fibrin gelatum, hyaluronic acid, chitin and natural extracellular matrix after acellular disposal, etc.
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To obtain a precise stratigraphic range for the radiolarian fauna, biostratigraphic analysis on the co-occurring microfossils, conodonts, chitinozoans, and graptolites, was also carried out.
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In addition, examination of the chitinous cuticle that covers the surface of the infundibulum reveals a remarkable array of tiny pegs or ‘denticles’.
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A chitinous exoskeleton is not rigid enough to support a mass of that size.
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The Discinids are a small long-lived group of inarticulate brachiopods with chitinophosphatic shells.
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They are the earliest well-known complex three-dimensional trace fossils; mostly small, chitinous, calcareous, and phosphatic elements of problematic affinity.
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Between late stage 16 and mid-stage 17 the apical plasma membrane of epidermal cells forms regular corrugations called apical undulae (au), at the tip of which chitin synthesis takes place, while secretion occurs at the valley between the corrugations (D).
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Chitin and chitosan can adsorb organic compounds by forming chemical bond or flocculate organic compounds as a cationic polyelectrolyte.
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The head of the thing was not that of a locust but a different, bright-eyed presence not human or animal but chitinous, alien, fanged, stony and sleek in aspect.
Abomination at the Shilkie
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Calicide acts by preventing the formation of chitin, a key component in the sea louse's exoskeleton, but also important in the life-cycles of mussels and snails, scallops, worms, crabs and lobsters.
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Despite their obvious differences, both mollusc shells and arthropod cuticle contain chitin.
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In the invertebrate cephalochordate Amphioxus, there is a family of very immunoglobulin like-molecules, Variable domain Chitin Binding Proteins, which are involved in innate immunity.
Stuck on you, biological Velcro and the evolution of adaptive immunity - The Panda's Thumb
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Organisation of the procuticle is supposedly controlled by the apical plasma membrane that forms longitudinal corrugations called apical undulae during chitin synthesis that run perpendicular to the anterior-posterior axis of the developing embryo (
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Most biological hydraulic skeletons are cylindrical and their walls are reinforced by relatively inextensible fibers (usually collagen or chitin in animals, and cellulose in plants).
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Polysaccharides are also used in the shells of such crustaceans as crabs and lobsters (chitin).
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Cell walls of Fusarium are made up, in part, of compounds called chitin and glucan, which the enzymes break down.
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The petals were delicate and intricately layered, like a rose, and possessed of a fragile beauty at odds with the chitinous stems from which they grew, but Lily knew nothing of that.
The Sisters and the Seeds « A Fly in Amber
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Uvitex 2B stain is an optical brightener that specifically binds to the chitin of fungal cell walls.
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Gizzard: a pouch-like structure between the crop and chylific ventricle furnished with chitinous teeth or plates, in which the food is prepared for the digestive juices by grinding or merely sifting = cardia.
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Aslam H, Tear G, Casanova J (2005) mummy/cystic encodes an enzyme required for chitin and glycan synthesis, involved in trachea, embryonic cuticle and CNS development-analysis of its role in Drosophila tracheal morphogenesis.
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As she worked, she hummed and then sang out, trimming the great rocky chunk of chitin with a sharp filet knife.
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Her manifold legs danced swiftly, all angles and jabs; chitin claws embraced, for brief moments, dry and cracking branches; her bulbous body swayed slowly in counterpoint.
DREAMING LIES TO CHANGE THE TRUTH • by Kaolin Fire
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Ants endowed with a compulsion to chew through grass stems at a particular height, snakes engineered to create antivenin in a mammalian-derived sheath, beetles gifted with digestive enzymes that converted discarded plastics into chitin.
The Last Liverbeast « A Fly in Amber
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Polysaccharides are also used in the shells of such crustaceans as crabs and lobsters (chitin).
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Finally, like other fungi, chytrids have chitin strengthening their cell walls, and one subgroup have cellulose as well, a trait unique among living fungi.
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But this time… ‘Dancer held up her elongated forearms, staring at her pale, chitinous claws.’
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This IGR acts by inhibiting chitin formation specifically in homopteran pests.
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Apart from degraded chitins and glucans, callose also acts as a positive regulator of the hypersensitive response
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The chitin of the black widow, her exoskeleton, is so shiny and tough that simply spraying her living quarters with Raid will not kill her; you must spray it directly on her body for the insecticide to take effect.
Ze Widow, She Is Black
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In general, the best biological indicators are those with good preservation potential, for example, siliceous, chitinized, or (under neutral to alkaline pH conditions) carbonaceous body parts.
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic
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Level 1 - Enhances the Assassin's chitinous armor with organic barbs, giving him 2 bonus armor and returning 10% of melee attack damage to enemies.
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Owing to its peculiar nature, the hard outer skin, which is of horny, or, as it is called, 'chitinous' nature, cannot grow gradually, and so the skin has to be cast off periodically.
Chatterbox, 1905.
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Lewis bristled with armor, the chitin alloy plating spliced into his skin would stop anything of the calibre these men could heft, and in sheer mass he could crush them without effort.
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Include natural chitin, clean pet hair deeply, deodorize, restrain growth and breeding of germ.
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Eurypterid cuticle was chitinous and of varying thickness, but generally very thin, and preserved specimens (which were probably mostly molted skins) are usually crushed.
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Many xanthophytes produce a cell wall, though it is not composed of cellulose (as in plants) or of chitin (as in fungi).
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For example, chitin gives strength and stiffness to the shells / cuticles of shrimps and insects and to the cell walls of fungi.
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This paper researches technological conditions under which the D - glucosamine hydrochloride prepared from chitin by acidic hydrolysis.
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The chitin-rich liquid is then absorbed through the still permeable new skeleton back into the insect's body.
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Objective: To observe whether a well vascularized temporoparietal fascial flap would improve rabbit intratemporal facial nerve regeneration repaired with chitin chamber.
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Plants then synthesize antimicrobial substances, including the protein chitinase, which degrades the cell walls of fungi, and enzymes called nucleases, which break apart the ribonucleic acid of viruses.
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The synthesis of chitinase by Bacillus thuringiensis HD 224 strain using eight different carbohydrate resources was studied.
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By contrast, an armorial lustre slid along the chitinous combs of the insect's legs.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Chitinases are hydrolytic enzymes that catalyze the degradation of chitin, a major component of fungal cell walls.
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The gene from the tobacco hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) produces a chemical that breaks down chitin, a major component of insects' outer surface and gut lining.
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When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way.
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For a moment, the room became strikingly clear, he saw the giant chitin plated alien that had first offered him a fix in a bar off base, coached him through his first purchase, and had always been around to hook him up when he needed a fresh hit.
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Glutamine-fructose 6-phosphate aminotransferase and chitin synthase are also being characterized.
The Scientist
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Applying these ideas to the design of organismic bodies, we note that the supportive materials of plants and animals are based on fibrous macromolecules-cellulose in plants and collagen and chitin in animals.
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The best performer was chitosan - derived from chitin, the main component of crab and beetle shells.
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There are a few other animal carbohydrates, notably chitin, the substance which constitutes the hard outer casing of insects and crustaceans.
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After tearing apart foot with a chitinous tongue called the radula, their food travels down the gullet.
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In addition, experiments were conducted at sea to measure the growth of heterotrophic bacteria in response to amendments of amino acids, protein, N-acetyl glucosamine, and chitin.
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The chafing of his chitin from the dryness of the air was plain to see, even though Cullen knew the exoarcheologist employed several specially formulated creams to maintain his exoskeleton's shine and character.
Diuturnity's Dawn
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The chitinous cuticle that covers the infundibulum extends into and covers the inner surface of the acetabulum.
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Recently, more and more attention was paid on insect chitinase in plant pest control, for it could degrade chitin, one of the main components of insect integument and petritropic membrane.
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Chitin: the material forming the hard parts of the insect body; it is a secretion (or a metamorphosis?) of the epidermis, differing from horn by its insolubility in boiling liquor potassae: = elytra, entomolin.
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The presence of bifunctional chitinase/chitosanase enzymes were only observed in the mycorrhizal part of the root system, showing the localized character of the induction.
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Present also was that rare grimoire the Nan-quo, which told of such as as the Mohicans had relayed of chitinous mountain monsters when first they had congress with the Dutch south of Fort Orange.
Perquampi
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The hard component was often formed from calcium carbonate, as found in shellfish, but other durable defences were provided by chitin (a complex carbohydrate) in crustaceans and insects.
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In in vitro experiments it was shown that inhibition of 14C N-acetylglucosamine incorporation into chitin by proleg epidermis is less pronounced at 20°C than at 25°, 30° and 35°C (Chandler et al.,
Chapter 7
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As she worked, she hummed and then sang out, trimming the great rocky chunk of chitin with a sharp filet knife.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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The chemical, marketed under the name Calicide, acts by preventing the formation of chitin, a key component of the sea-louse's exoskeleton, but also important in the life cycles of scallops, mussels and lobsters.
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Leaves and other debris covered it, and the chitinous carcasses of dead bugs were littered around.
Rot & Ruin
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Instead of the familiar smooth blue-green, her exoskeleton was a rich, deep purple, the chitin worn rough and pebbly in places.
Dirge
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Typical chitinases have a N-terminal signal region, a catalytic domain and a C-terminal region, but some chitinases have one or more chum-binding domains.
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The chitinized walls that lined many of the spray flow structures exhibited birefringence in polarized light microscopy.
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Upon ecdysis, a chitinous duplicature of the exoskeleton is shed and a growth band is added to the valves.
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Hypoderm - is: the cellular layer which secretes the chitinous cuticula and in this sense = epidermis: specifically applied to the lining membrane of elytral and hemelytra.
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The fine sand and silt size fraction comprised decayed plant material, pollen, occasional chitin fragments, clay aggregates, diatoms and fine silicates.
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The ability of snails to hydrolyze plant polysaccharides xylan, mannan, starch and cellulose as well as chitin, an animal and fungal polysaccharide, is probably an indication of their omnivorous diet.
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Marine invertebrates with hard shells and skeletons of chitin or lime are more conducive to fossil preservation than soft-bodied creatures.
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Entirely more disturbing was the fact that in lonesome quarters I had on a number of occasions already encountered members of his chitinous league.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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She glanced around the room, jumped at the sound of leaves skittering on the tiles, so much like the chitinous scuttle of cockroaches.
When Rose Wakes
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Red and very clear, it shone on her chitinous tummy.
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Because of the lever action, the striking limb called a dactyl moves much faster than the releasing chitin and attains the tremendous acceleration.
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Arthropods have a stiff cuticle made largely of chitin and proteins, forming an exoskeleton that may or may not be further stiffened with calcium carbonate.
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The Sec24CD dependent COPII vesicles, thus, carry cuticle components as diverse as for example the chitin synthase producing the bulk of the procuticle, factors of the extracellular melanisation pathway, and the yet unknown lipid-handling enzymes of the envelope and epicuticle.
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Lora: the chitinous bands connecting the submentum with the cardo of maxilla (Comst.): the submentum: small cords upon which the base of the proboscis is seated (Say): the anterior part of the genae at the edge of the mouth: the corneous processes to which the muscles flexing the mouth in certain Diptera are attached, and in that sense the palpifer of the maxilla: in Homoptera, the small sclerite at side of clypeus and front, extending laterally to the genae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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The hard parts may be mineralized, as in the shells of bivalves, or composed of organic material, such as the chitin that makes up the exoskeleton of arthropods.
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Operculum: a lid or covering: in Diptera, the chitinous envelope covering the lower part of the muscid mouth; the labrum-epipharynx of Dimmock: the scutes covering the meso-thoracic stigmata: in
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The rhizobia can secrete a chitinous polysaccharide so-called Nod factors, which is the key signal of perception each other during the symbiotic interaction.
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Even as you read these lines (relativistically speaking), some alien eye or eyes, perhaps set in chitinous, horny lids, are perplexedly scanning one of a pair of argyles which you lost last Tuesday.
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Aronson NN Jr, Halloran BA, Alexyev MF, Amable L, Madura JD, et al. (2003) Family 18 chitinase-oligosaccharide substrate interaction: subsite preference and anomer selectivity of
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Hypoderm - is: the cellular layer which secretes the chitinous cuticula and in this sense = epidermis: specifically applied to the lining membrane of elytral and hemelytra.
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Armature: applied to the spinous or chitinous processes on the legs, body or wings; or the corneous parts of genitalic structures.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Even as you read these lines (relativistically speaking), some alien eye or eyes, perhaps set in chitinous, horny lids, are perplexedly scanning one of a pair of argyles which you lost last Tuesday.
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In addition to the peritrophic matrix and exoskeleton, these findings confirm chitin is also present in the mosquito serosal cuticle.
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[13], ScCTS1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (PDB code: 2UY2), and a hyperthermophilic chitinase from Pyrococcus furiosus
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It's probably less protein in the human diet than carbohydrate (assuming their exoskeleton is comformed of chitin).
On The Subject of Traditional Foods of Mexico
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Present also was that rare grimoire the Nan-quo, which told of such as as the Mohicans had relayed of chitinous mountain monsters when first they had congress with the Dutch south of Fort Orange.
Perquampi
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After tearing apart food with a chitinous tongue called the radula, their food travels down the gullet.
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