Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of small fossil Crustacea of the order Ostracoda, with ovate or oblong bivalve shells. They occur abundantly in some shales and limestones of Lower Paleozoic age.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eng. Law) The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
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Jensen 2006 In situ structure of the complete Treponema primitia flagellar motor.
Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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A paper that just came out in Advance Online Publication section of Nature, Murphy et al. 2006, reports the first in situ structure of a flagellar motor in a spirochete, Treponema primitia.
Friday flagellum blogging -- spirochete flagella - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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βIn situ structure of the complete Treponema primitia flagellar motor.β
Friday flagellum blogging -- spirochete flagella - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A paper that just came out in Advance Online Publication section of Nature, Murphy et al. 2006, reports the first in situ structure of a flagellar motor in a spirochete, Treponema primitia.
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Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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