pill bug
常见例句
- In both the butterfly and the pill bug, the bacterium skews the populations' sex ratios massively toward females.
在非洲細蝶與鼠婦族群中,沃巴赫菌都大幅扭曲了性別比例,使雌性佔了絕對多數。 - 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.
至於鼠婦,法國波瓦提大學的黎哥與同事收集的資料,顯示雄性比較不喜歡與變性來的雌性交配。 - 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).
例如非洲細蝶(Acraeaencedon)的某些族群中,雄性極爲稀少,分佈廣泛的鼠婦(Armadillidiumvulgare;又叫木虱)也是。 - The defeat was a bitter pill to swallow.
那次失敗是一次難以吞咽的苦果。 - 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.
黎哥與同事已經發現,沃巴赫菌能夠決定鼠婦的性別,因爲雄性擁有發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.
在鼠婦躰內,沃巴赫菌能將雄性變性,於是傳播死巷就變成了通往下一代的門戶。 返回 pill bug