melanized AmE
melanised BrE

In addition, the abdomen of a fly is less melanized.

As a result, the female will have a distinct melanized scar in the region the male pierced.

Also, zone lines of melanized fungal cells may be visible within infected wood.

All the isolates, except C. communis, formed melanized sporangia in pure culture.

E. rostratum is a melanized fungus capable of thriving at mammalian temperatures.

Some previous work on other species indicated that more melanized butterflies and moths might have better ability to warm up more efficiently.

Few larvae became melanized.

Armillaria rhizomorphs consist of differentiated hyphae with a melanized outer cortex.

Occasionally larvae penetrated directly into the haemocoel and were surrounded by haemocytes and(or) became melanized.

They lack ascospores; all their cells grow by mitotic cell divisions and possess a thick melanized cell wall.

We have studied the biodegradation of melanized cells of Aureobasidium pullulans by electron microscopy.

Black yeasts are an unrelated category of fungi that share yeast-like morphology and possess darkly melanized cell walls.

If the shrimp undergo another successful moult following the transitional phase, they will cast off the melanized lesions and enter the chronic phase.

Conidia consisted of up to 15 cells and their cell wall was differentiated into an outer melanized zone and an inner hyaline zone.

Usually, the colour of visibly moldy material comes from conidia, ascocarps, pycnidia and, in the case of melanized fungi, the mycelia.

Typically the fruitbodies of Arrhenia species are grey to black or blackish brown, being pigmented by incrusting melanized pigments on the hyphae.

In broth, the isolates developed in the same manner and formed elongate thalli and melanized sporangia as described for our isolate.

Male seed beetles (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) have sclerotized spine on their genitalia, which penetrate the female and leave melanized scars.

Lack of melanized keratin and barbs that fall off: how the racketed tail of the turquoise-browed motmot Eumomota superciliosa is formed.

The melanized cell walls of DSE may affect heat dissipation or form complexes with oxygen radicals in plant hosts, which can alter host thermal tolerance.

Aleuriospores of H. grisea are bounded by a thick, single-layered cell wall differentiated into an outer, electron-dense melanized zone and an inner, hyaline zone.

Verticillium albo-altrum, Verticilium dahliae and V. longisporum can overwinter as melanized mycelium or microsclerotia within live vegetation or plant debris.

Dark septate endophytes (DSE) are a group of endophytic fungi characterized by their morphology of melanized, septate, hyphae.

However, moths with more melanin could warm up more quickly, which might enable them to be out looking for females more often in cooler weather than their less melanized counterparts.

The black-eyed gecko is named for its unusually melanised irises.

This piercing produces wounds that leave melanised scars.

As the sclerotia increases in size, cells of the outer layer becomes melanised, and thick walled.

It formed strongly melanised mycelium and microsclerotia that seem to be responsible for its resistance to fungal competition.

In extreme cases, the body is surrounded by melanised hyphae forming a skin, in other cases, the body tends to be diffuse.

Due to the heavily melanised melanosomes in darkly pigmented skin, it can absorb more energy from UVR and thus offers better protection against sunburns and by absorption and dispersion UV rays.