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  • Impairment of the chemical defence of the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, by metacestodes cysticercoids of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Impairment of the chemical defence of the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, by metacestodes cysticercoids of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Impairment of the chemical defence of the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, by metacestodes cysticercoids of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • -- A living species from Uruguay and Brazil, described in 1955 as Holochilus magnus, was shown by Voss & Carleton (1993) to be the same thing as another Pleistocene fossil species named by Winge in 1887, Hesperomys molitor.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A new genus for Hesperomys molitor Winge and Holochilus magnus Hershkovitz (Mammalia, Muridae): with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Restudy of this murid showed that it was distinct from both Holochilus (the semiaquatic web-footed rats) and Hesperomys (nowadays synonymous with Calomys, the vesper mice) and thus deserving of its own genus, so today this species is called Lundomys molitor.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • And yet, Non omnem molitor quae fluit undam videt, the miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill: no doubt, but, as in our days, these were of the commonalty, all the great ones were not so much as called in question for it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A new strain of BT belonging to the pathotype C was isolated from Tenebrio molitor by Krieg et al. (1983) and identified as belonging to a new subspecies, B. thuringiensis var. tenebrionis.

    Chapter 8 1994

  • Farinocystis tribolii is a parasite of Tribolium destructor, T. molitor, T. castaneum and T. confusum.

    Chapter 8 1994

  • This same Acilius Glabrio is later included in a Christian group of the Flavian family as a molitor rerum novarum

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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