pill bug
常见例句
- In both the butterfly and the pill bug, the bacterium skews the populations' sex ratios massively toward females.
在非洲细蝶与鼠妇族群中,沃巴赫菌都大幅扭曲了性别比例,使雌性占了绝对多数。 - In the example of the pill bug, Thierry Rigaud and his collaborators at the University of Poitiers in France have shown that males prefer not to mate with feminized males.
至于鼠妇,法国波瓦提大学的黎哥与同事收集的资料,显示雄性比较不喜欢与变性来的雌性交配。 - For instance, males are extremely rare in some groups of the African butterfly Acraea encedon and of the widespread pill bug Armadillidium vulgare (also called a wood louse).
例如非洲细蝶(Acraeaencedon)的某些族群中,雄性极为稀少,分布广泛的鼠妇(Armadillidiumvulgare;又叫木虱)也是。 - The defeat was a bitter pill to swallow.
那次失败是一次难以吞咽的苦果。 - Research by Rigaud and his associates has shown that Wolbachia can determine gender in A. vulgare, because male pill bugs have all the genes necessary to become females.
黎哥与同事已经发现,沃巴赫菌能够决定鼠妇的性别,因为雄性拥有发育成雌性所需要的全部基因。 - In pill bugs, Wolbachia converts would-be males into females.By feminizing males, the parasite is changing a non-transmitting host into one that will pass the infection on to its offspring.
在鼠妇体内,沃巴赫菌能将雄性变性,于是传播死巷就变成了通往下一代的门户。 返回 pill bug