Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small ovary; the ovary of a compound ovarium; one of the ovarian tubes or glands of which a composite ovary may be composed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
tubes of which theovaries of mostinsects are composed.
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Examples
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RH-5849 also inhibits ovariole development, causing prevention or cessation of oviposition in adult Lepidoptera and some species of Coleoptera and Dipteral It has been shown to be effective in in vitro experiments on imaginal disc cells of Plodia interpunctella.
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In this case, the effects of vitellogenin on GRS shield the effects of ovariole number.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer M. Tsuruda et al. 2008
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This was expected considering the hypothesized causal chain of ovariole number, vitellogenin synthesis, and GRS.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer M. Tsuruda et al. 2008
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[5] colonies had mean worker ovariole counts of 4±2. 4 S.D. and 5±3. 1 per ovary while in this study they had an average of 6±3. 6.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer M. Tsuruda et al. 2008
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Regression analysis showed that GRS explained more of the variance in vitellogenin expression (log transformed data) than did ovariole number (GRS: r
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer M. Tsuruda et al. 2008
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