pill bug
基本解释
- 潮虫，球潮虫，鼠妇。
同根派生
英汉例句
- 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。
英英字典
- a small, dark grey creature with a hard outer shell, found under stones or in slightly wet soil