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Definition of the noun Aequorea
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Aequorea is a genus of Aequoreidae, described by Péron & Lesueur in 1810.
- synonyms: genus Aequorea / Aequora / genus Aequora / Cremastoma / genus Cremastoma / Mesomena / genus Mesomena / Mesonema / genus Mesonema / Mesonemia / genus Mesonemia / Oequorea / genus Oequorea / Rhegmatodes / genus Rhegmatodes / Zygodactyla / genus Zygodactyla
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Cnidaria
- class: Hydrozoa
- order: Leptothecata
- family: Aequoreidae
- species Aequorea africana
- species Aequorea albida
- species Aequorea atrikeelis
- species Aequorea australis
- species Aequorea ciliata
- species Aequorea coerulescens
- species Aequorea conica
- species Aequorea cubana
- species Aequorea cyanea
- species Aequorea eurhodina
- species Aequorea floridana
- species Aequorea forskalea
- species Aequorea globosa
- species Aequorea krampi
- species Aequorea kurangai
- species Aequorea macrodactyla
- species Aequorea minima
- species Aequorea nanhainensis
- species Aequorea papillata
- species Aequorea parva
- species Aequorea pensilis
- species Aequorea pensilis
- species Aequorea phillipensis
- species Aequorea taiwanensis
- species Aequorea tenuis
- species Aequorea tetranema
- species Aequorea victoria
- species Aequorea vitrina
- species Mesonema henleana
- observational distribution: specimen and observational data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Network (not necessarily true occurrence density gradients)
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Aequorea is a genus of Aequoridae, described by Péron & Lesueur in 1810.
Phrases with Aequorea
Phrases starting with the word Aequorea:
- Aequorea parva
- Aequorea albida
- Aequorea conica
- Aequorea Cyanea
- Aequorea Krampi
- Aequorea Minima
- Aequorea tenuis
- Aequorea ciliata
- Aequorea globosa
- Aequorea vitrina
- Aequorea aequorea
- Aequorea Africana
- Aequorea pensilis
- Aequorea victoria
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Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Aequorea
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Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information by Hugh Chisholm
Aequorea is a common mcdusa. 3. Thaumimtidac.——Trophosome only known in one genus (Thau-' mantias), similar to that of the Eucnpidae; gonosome, rce meclusae with otocysts inconspicuous or absent. with usually four, sometimes eight ...
Methods, Evaluations, and Applications by Michael J. Corey
aequorea is a jellyfish found very widely in the ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
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Aequorea is a common medusa. 3. Thaumantidae.-Trophosome only known in one genus (Thaumantias), similar to that of the Eucopidae; gonosome, ' medusae with otocysts inconspicuous or absent, with usually four, sometimes eight, rarely ...
by Burkhard Fugmann, Susanne Lang-Fugmann, Wolfgang Steglich
The lamp jellyfish Aequorea aequorea exhibits a green bioluminescence under the action of Ca2+, this is due to *aequorin. The marine species Renilla reniformis also contains a L. which requires oxygen for the emission of light. This L. is ...
by John M. Lackie
Aequorea victoria Hydrozoan jellyfish (a coelenterate) from which green fluorescent protein (GFP) was isolated. Aequorin can be isolated from A. victoria and A. forskaolea. aequorin Protein (196aa) extracted from jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) ...
A Dictionary of Biomedicine (2010)
by John Lackie
extracted from jellyfish Aequorea victoria, that emits light (emission peak 470 nm, blue) according to the aerobes i4 calcium ion concentration. Calcium triggers the ...
Green fluorescent protein A protein originally isolated from the jellyfish ( Aequorea victoria) that retains the property of fluorescing green when exposed to blue light and when fused to other cellular proteins. Greywater Wastewater from clothes ...
by Virginia P. Studdert, Clive C. Gay, Douglas C. Blood
a small protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that is used to produce recombinant fusion proteins ; ...
by D A Bender
A protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that emits green fluorescence when excited by UV light. The GFP gene is widely used as ...
by Rolf H. J. Schlegel
Protein from the jellyfish, Aequorea victoria (Scyphozoa); the gene is used as a reporter gene; ...
by Frank J. Dye
aequorin a luminescent protein, derived from luminescent jellyfish (Aequorea), which emits light in the presence of free calcium ions; it has been used experimentally to visualize the release of free calcium ...
A Dictionary of Biology (2015)
by Robert Hine
Another striking example, obtained from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, is the reporter gene that encodes *green fluorescent protein ...
Dictionary of Zoology (1999)
by Sudhir Pradhan
AEQUORIN Animal protein extracted from the jelly-fish Aequorea. When it is combined with calcium ions, it emits a photon of ...
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - Australian & New Zealand Edition (2014)
by Peter Harris, Sue Nagy, Nicholas Vardaxis
a protein obtained from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that emits a bright green fluorescence when illuminated. G)P is used to monitor gene expression, gene transfer across ...
Encyclopedia of Microbiology (2009)
The GFP gene from the jellyfish (Aequorea victoria) encodes the green fluorescent protein (which fluoresces in blue light) and can be used to follow the subcellular destiny of certain expressed proteins when GFP is fused with the genes of ...
Two such proteins nativeto the jellyfish genus Aequorea – aequorin and the green fluorescent protein (GFP) – have been particularlyuseful toolsin ...
by David A. Bender
A protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that emits green fluorescence when excited by UV light. The GFP gene is widely used as a ...
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Aequorea is a genus of bioluminescent jellyfish
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Scrabble value of A1E1Q10U1O1R1E1A1
The value of this 8-letter word is 17 points, but it's not an accepted word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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