Definitions
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- Of or pertaining to a leech or to the group Bdelloida.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
rotifers of the subclassBdelloidea . - noun A
rotifer of the subclassBdelloidea .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every individual bdelloid is a female that produces unfertilized eggs from which more females hatch and so on.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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January 29 (ANI): A new research has discovered that the secret to the evolutionary longevity of very small invertebrates called bdelloid rotifers is that they are
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Obama's NASA Budget: So Long, Moon Missions; Hello, Private Spaceflight Biologists are a step closer to figuring out the bizarre animals known as bdelloid rotifers, thanks to a new study in Science.
Discover Blogs 2010
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Evidence for massive horizontal gene transfer - from bacteria, fungi, and even from plants - has been found in the genome of the tiny swimming critter known as the bdelloid rotifer ...
unknown title 2009
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Evidence for massive horizontal gene transfer - from bacteria, fungi, and even from plants - has been found in the genome of the tiny swimming critter known as the bdelloid rotifer ...
unknown title 2009
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Evidence for massive horizontal gene transfer - from bacteria, fungi, and even from plants - has been found in the genome of the tiny swimming critter known as the bdelloid rotifer ...
unknown title 2009
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Japanese beetles have picked up sequences from a parasitic bacterium and microscopic aquatic creatures called bdelloid rotifers have collected genes from bacteria, fungi and plants.
Signs of the Times 2008
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The authors base this claim on the well known fact several groups of multicellular animals, for example, bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades, nematodes and arthropods, have representatives that can survive extreme desiccation for long periods.
We are going to freeze dry you all! AYDIN 2009
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The authors base this claim on the well known fact several groups of multicellular animals, for example, bdelloid rotifers, tardigrades, nematodes and arthropods, have representatives that can survive extreme desiccation for long periods.
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This paper came to my attention because it cites one of my old papers on bdelloid rotifers (Örstan, 1995).
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sionnach commented on the word bdelloid
see also hirudine
November 5, 2007
mollusque commented on the word bdelloid
In addition to being a kind of leech, "bdelloid" also describes a rotifer of the order Bdelloidea.
November 5, 2007