Sentence examples for remarkable insect from inspiring English sources
Bugs Stay High and Dry Gerris remigis is a remarkable insect: it walks on water.
A remarkable insect fauna has been found in the nest of an African hornbill.
His lab and office are filled with a mad maze of glass tubes and tanks in which remarkable insect communities display their division of relentless labor, their commitment to this division of labor and their intricate schemes to beget more insects and to defend their special groupish way of a life all the time prompting the question: How do they do it?
Madagascar also has a remarkable insect-eating family, the tenrecs (animals with long pointed snouts, some of which are spiny and tailless).
Cicadas are remarkable singing insects in tropical and temperate forests that belongs to family Cicadidae (Suborder: Homoptera; Order: Heteroptera) [1], [2].
The most remarkable characteristic of insect diapause is strong metabolic suppression.
There is a remarkable diversity of insect body plans in nature, and yet, these seem to arise from the same gene networks in the embryo.
This trend in nucleotide composition (A+T bias) is remarkable in some insect groups (i.e. holometabolan orders) and, to a lesser extent, is also apparent in the more basal hexapod lineages [ 31].
However, given the remarkable similarities between insect and human isoforms of proteins involved in APP-dependent signaling and Aβ-associated toxicity (Vazquez-Martinez et al., 2003; Jacobsen and Iverfeldt, 2009; van de Hoef et al., 2009), we postulate that many candidate drugs that target these pathways will have analogous effects in our simpler assays.
In the journal Current Biology, Todd Schlenke, an Emory University biologist, and his colleagues report a remarkable defense the insects use: To kill their parasites, the flies get drunk.
Given the remarkable diversity of insects and their physiological systems, it would not be entirely surprising that hymenopteran olfactory proteins and dipteran, particularly mosquito OBPs, have different modes of action.
