Sentence examples for insect version from inspiring English sources

It was as if an insect version of AIDS were sweeping through the hives.

Biologists have long thought of the male cricket as an insect version of the stalker boyfriend.

The culprit is a newly discovered syndrome known as colony collapse disorder: think of it as an insect version of sudden infant death syndrome.

Come fall, the adult mosquitoes die off, but the larvae live on through the winter in a state of suspended animation known as diapause the insect version of hibernation.

In addition to the pig and dog, a certain upwardly mobile fly alerts the harvester -- in a sort of foot-stamping, insect version of "my-child is going to Dalton or nowhere" -- by buzzing over the buried truffle and trying to deposit her eggs on the ground above it.

Call it the insect version of foreplay.

There is an insect-themed version if your pupils would rather look beyond the classroom.

The connection is most obvious in "Aladdin Sane", where Simon Williams twists and writhes like a pinned insect in a version of the Chosen One solo danced by Amy Hollingsworth in 2005 and Joanne Barrett in 1992.

However, expression of the native 3ABC gene in insect cells yielded truncated versions of the proteins; thus, a monoclonal antibody to capture digested proteins is needed to develop the assay.

To investigate which of Glo's two RNA-binding modes was required for its different functions in flies, Gavis and colleagues generated insects carrying mutant versions of the RNA-binding protein.

A battery-powered version of the insect telemetry system, previously developed by Harrison and Leonardo, weighs 130 milligrams -- liftable by a foraging dragonfly but with difficulty.