单词 | ommatin |
释义 | ommatinn. Biochemistry. Any of the group of ommochromes characterized by weaker colours, lower stability to alkalis, and lower molecular weights than ommins. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [noun] > human or animal pigments > red or brown porphobilin1939 ommatin1940 ommin1940 ommochrome1945 1940 Biol. Abstr. 14 1238/1 The 2 eye pigments [of Ephestia] are typical of those found among insects. The dark red or brown ommines occur in Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera Heteroptera, and in the nematocerous Diptera. The more weakly colored ommatines are found in the cyclorrhaphous Diptera, Odonata, and Orthoptera. 1965 V. B. Wigglesworth Princ. Insect Physiol. (ed. 6) xiii. 556 The ommochromes fall into two groups: the non-dialysable ‘ommines’, with large molecules, and the dialysable ‘ommatines’ with small molecules. 1969 R. F. Chapman Insects vii. 109 Tyndall blues are rare in insects, but the blue of dragonflies is produced in this way, the dark background being provided by a brown-violet ommatin. 1995 Jrnl. Heredity 86 375 Chromatographic analysis of pigments extracted from wild-type eyes of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae reveals the presence of the ommatin precursor 3-hydroxykynurenine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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