Sentence examples for genus of insect from inspiring English sources

Issus is a genus of insect that hops from plant to plant using unusually powerful legs.

Zika is a mosquito-borne disease that normally has symptoms similar to the dengue and chikungunya viruses, which are spread by the same genus of insect.

Fire ant (genus Solenopsis), also called thief ant, any of a genus of insects in the family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera, that occur in tropical regions of the world, such as Central and South America, and in some temperate regions, such as North America.

At face value, this result implies that the evolution of genes within a single genus of insects is subject to a much greater variability of evolution rates than the evolution of diverse gene families that span the entire depth of the history of cellular life.

In Metazoa, most of the published population genomic data sets concern the relatively slow-evolving vertebrates (Boyko et al. 2008; Axelsson and Ellegren 2009; Halligan et al. 2010) and just one genus of insects (i.e., Drosophila, Bierne and Eyre-Walker 2004; Begun et al. 2007), providing only limited opportunity for comparison.

However, the case of Columbicola spp. is remarkable in that these polyphyletic primary symbionts are found within a single genus of host insects.

This week young members of a genus of stocky little insects called Issus were shown to use gearing in their legs to hop around plants.This is believed to be the first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure.

The discovery that symbionts in the genus Wolbachia infect approximately 17% of insect species (Werren et al. 1995) prompted more surveys of bacterial diversity in arthropods.

Nasonia, a genus of four closely related parasitoid insect species, is a model system for genetic research.

Some studies showed an isolation of the members of this genus from insects (Gnanamanickam 2006).

EPNs in the genus Heterorhabditis (Heterorhabditidae) and Steinernema (Steinernematidae) are obligate organisms that infect a wide range of insect hosts (Kaya and Gaugler, 1993).