Definitions
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- adj. Bruce (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Bruce's ..."
Etymologies
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Examples
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He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection.
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Prologue: A Vein Is a River xiv “Trypanosoma brucei has many enchanting features …”: Borst et al., 1997, p.
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Bottom left: Another single-celled parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, is the cause of sleeping sickness.
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Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a species of trypanosomes related to Trypanosoma brucei, the cause of sleeping sickness.
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Cause sleeping sickness (T. brucei), Chagas disease (T. cruzi), and other diseases.
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Sleeping sickness: Disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei, and transmitted by the tsetse fly.
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The expression sites for variant surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma brucei.
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In an otherwise sober scientific paper, I came across this sentence: “Trypanosoma brucei has many enchanting features that have made this parasite the darling of experimental biologists.”
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Two narrowly distributed subspecies of rock hyrax were first described from Mount Mulanje; these are Heterohyrax brucei manningi and Procavia capensis johnstoni.
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In addition, 5 species restricted wholly or largely to the Middle East are resident here, including Alectoris melanocephala, Ammoperdix heyi, Otus brucei, Oenanthe monach and O. alboniger.
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