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n. Any of several fungus of the genus (taxlink Melanogaster genus noshow=1).
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Melanogaster ("black-bellied") may refer to the following organisms:
- Melanogaster (fungus), a genus of false truffles
- Melanogaster (fly), a genus of Hoverflies
Melanogaster is a genus of fungus that resemble truffles, and are often mistaken for them. However, they do not have the characteristic aroma and value of truffles, although some have been used culinarily. None are known to be poisonous. The genus contains 25 species that collectively have a widespread distribution.
A new polyene pigment, melanocrocin, has been isolated either from fruit bodies or mycelial cultures of the subterranean fungus Melanogaster broomeianus. The structure of the pigment was determined by spectroscopic methods and chemical transformations. Melanocrocin is the N-acyl derivative of L- phenylalanine methyl ester with a polyolefinic carboxylic acid.
Usage examples of "melanogaster".
Drosophila melanogaster, which gathers like specks of coal dust, seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit.
She knew it when she looked small enclosure swarming with Drosophila melanogaster, the vinegar fruit fly.
One of them pointed to Bill, and the two spoke for a while, and the first one started over toward Bill, but the Resistance leader who had collected Bill, Commandante Luther Anastasius Lambert Hendricks Bavan Drosophila Melanogaster Farkleheimer, cut them off before they could get within speaking distance, ordered them out of the room.
For the bulk of this century a favoured organism for geneticists to study, because of the ease with which it can be maintained, its rapid breeding cycle and the possibility of studying populations of many thousands, has been the tiny fruit fly (sometimes called vinegar fly), Drosophila melanogaster, which gathers like specks of coal dust, seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit.
I'd been looking at one of Slavsky's books, at a coloured illustration of the nervous system of the Drosophila melanogaster, while I was mentally going through the details of my cover.
The fact is that this bird will pick up fruit flies unerringly, only those, only the one species Drosophila melanogaster.