Lesage, Alain-René
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Lesage, Alain-René (1668–1747), French novelist and playwright. He specialized in picaresque narratives:
Le Diable boiteux (1707) and his masterpiece
Gil Blas (1715–35) are notable for their narrative brio and their shrewd, good-humoured presentation of human nature.
Gil Blas was translated by
Smollett in 1749: with
Don Quixote and
Rabelais, it can be considered the greatest foreign influence on 18th-cent. English comic fiction.
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Immunolocalization of serotonin in Onychophora argues against segmental ganglia being an ancestral feature of arthropods.(Research article)(Report)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology; 7/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Steffen Harzsch [2] Background Onychophora (or "velvet worms", Figure 1A and...basal position within the Arthropoda, Onychophora represent a key group for the current...specimen of Metaperipatus blainvillei (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae) from Chile. (B...
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Enigmas overturned by Chinese fossils. (problematic Cambrian fossils now classified in the phylum Onychophora)
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/18/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...the most enigmatic of these animals belong to the phylum Onychophora, which in the modern world includes the velvet worms of...as well as some other Cambrian oddities, into the fold of Onychophora. Although this work has attracted the attention of other...
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Research from C. Sampaiocosta and colleagues has provided new data on science.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 11/20/2009; 635 words
; ...the currently known distribution of Onychophora (velvet worms) in Brazil is presented...Brazil. The southernmost record for Onychophora is ltacuruca island, Mangaratiba...and the paucity of localities where Onychophora have been collected, we may expect...
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Researchers from University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Physiology publish new studies and findings in the area of life sciences.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 9/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...glutamatergic neuromuscular innervation of Onychophora: a combined histochemical/electrophysiological...molecular phylogenetic data show that the Onychophora are close relatives of the Arthropoda...glutamatergic neuromuscular innervation of Onychophora: a combined histochemical/electrophysiological...
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A new look at the ventral nerve centre of Sagitta : implications for the phylogenetic position of Chaetognatha (arrow worms) and the evolution of the bilaterian nervous system.(Research)
Magazine article from: Frontiers in Zoology; 5/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Zrzav et al. al. [45] combined morphological and 18S rDNA sets in a cladistic analysis which suggested a grouping of Onychophora + (Tardigrada + Arthropoda) to be the sister group of chaetognaths. Giribet et al. [46] also combined 18S rDNA data...
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Cabbage white seems to fly in the face of evolution
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 10/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...forms of caterpillar and butterfly result from an ancient hybridisation between an insect and a genus of velvet worms called Onychophora. "No one knows where caterpillars came from," he has been quoted as saying, but his proposal of molecular research to...
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Evolution: do the eyes have it?
Magazine article from: Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...although simple photoreception is almost universally present, no eyes evolved, but eyes evolved later in Annelida, Mollusca, Onychophora, and Chordata. Conway Morris sees eyes as a factor, but not an especially important factor in the rapid evolution in the...
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Evolutionary oddball surfaces in Greenland. (discovery of fossil remains of creature from Cambrian period)
Magazine article from: Science News; 7/11/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...as though they have been inflated with a bicycle pump. Ancient lobopods and their modern counter-parts, in the phylum Onychophora, intrigue scientists because they may represent a link between two extremely successful phyla, Annelida (segmented worms...
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Findings in biology reported from University of Melbourne.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 11/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...embryonic characters are synapomorphies uniting the chelicerates and myriapods, as revealed by an outgroup comparison with the Onychophora or velvet worms," wrote G. Mayer and colleagues, University of Melbourne (see also Biology). The researchers concluded...
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Study data from University of London update understanding of developmental science.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 7/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...involvement of engrailed and wingless during segmentation in the onychophoran Euperipatoides kanangrensis (Peripatopsidae: Onychophora) (Reid 1996). Development Genes and Evolution, 2009;219(5):249-264). For additional information, contact...
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Onychophora
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Onychophora , small phylum with about 70 species of animals that are often called "missing links" between annelids (phylum Annelida ) and...
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Burgess Shale and Ediacaran Faunas
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...include a number of wormlike and segmented organisms, some of which were assigned to novel phyla (phyla Priapulida and Onychophora) while others remain "unclassified to this day." Opabinia was a five-eyed, 3-inch-long creature with a frontal...
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Cambrian Explosion
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...Chordata [vertebrates]), a number of other phyla were created and have since become extinct (including phyla Priapulida, Onychophora, and some unclassifiables). The Burgess Shale (in British Columbia, Canada) and the Chingjiang (in Yunnan Province...
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Peripatus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Peripatus ( velvet worms ; phylum Onychophora ) A genus of onychophorans that are 1.4–15 cm long, with a dry, soft, flexible, very permeable skin that is moulted...
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velvet worms
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
velvet worms See ONYCHOPHORA .
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