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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
- members:
- 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.
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Cnidaria
- class: Hydrozoa
- order: Leptothecata
- family: Aequoridae
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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Coupled Bioluminescent Assays (2008)
Methods, Evaluations, and Applications by Michael J. Corey
aequorea is a jellyfish found very widely in the ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information by Hugh Chisholm
Aequorea is a common medusa. 3. Thaumantidae. — Trophosome only known in one genus (Thau- mantias), similar to that of the Eucopidae; gonosome, free medusae with otocysts inconspicuous or absent, with usually four, sometimes eight, ...
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 ...
RÖMPP Encyclopedia Natural Products, 1st Edition, 2000 (2014)
by Burkhard Fugmann, Susanne Lang-Fugmann, Wolfgang Steglich
aequorea, blue phosphorescent, see also aequorin); siphonopheres or tubular jellyfish (e.g., ...
The Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (2012)
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) ...
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 ...
The Illustrated Doctors Dictionary (2011)
A medical dictionary written by a doctor for doctors, now illustrated by Joseph C Segen
from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria; gene fusions with GFP may be used to localise proteins by fluorescence microscopy or can be integrated into ...
Dictionary of Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine, and Translational Medicine (2017)
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 Food and Nutrition (2009)
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 ...
Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology (2012)
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 ...
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 ...
A Dictionary of Biology (2015)
by Elizabeth Martin, Robert Hine
A naturally *fluorescent protein obtained from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and used as a marker for identifying cells containing ...
A Dictionary of Science (2010)
by Elizabeth A. Martin
A naturally fluorescent protein obtained from the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria and used as a marker for identifying cells containing recombinant DNA or for localizing specific proteins in cells. It absorbs blue light and emits a green ...
Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing (2005)
by Thomas Lathrop Stedman
A luminescent protein isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea, which emits blue light in the presence of even minute amounts of calcium ion; injected intracellularly, gas; aerial, gassy, [G. aér (L. aer), air] ...
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Aequorea is a genus of bioluminescent jellyfish
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