Sentence examples for louse for from inspiring English sources

The human head louse, for instance, evolved from the chimpanzee louse when the ancestors of humans and chimps split apart some five million years ago.

The article includes images of a 44-million-year-old fossil louse and a modern louse for comparison.

Stephanie D. Lewis is the official "Lice Lady" known as Debra Dé Louse for The Lice Clinics of America, changing public perception one nit at a time with her funny anecdotes.

The pubic louse has the same pattern as the body louse and the head louse for the distribution of protein-coding genes and rRNA genes among the mt minichromosomes; this pattern, thus, has been stable for at least 7 Myr.

Despite substantial variation in the sequence and the size of the NCR, the number of mt minichromosomes, and the gene content and gene arrangement in each minichromosome has been perfectly conserved between the head louse and the body louse for ∼107,000 years.

Our Roche deep sequencing revealed that both trnL 1 (tag) and trnL 2 (taa) were present before rrnS and rrnL in the chimpanzee louse: for rrnS the vast majority were trnL 1 (94.5 %) whereas for rrnL the vast majority were trnL 2 (97.3 %) (Fig.  1).

The pilot study included enzyme analysis of lice for insecticide resistance status assessment.

But this is difficult to do with lice, for which almost no fossils are known.

Some mammalian lice, for example, can lay their eggs only on hairs of a suitable diameter.

In wood lice, for example, the kinetic response alters only the rate of movement.

The last time she encountered significant resistance from her children, they were in elementary school, incensed that she'd written about their head lice for Redbook.