1944 Amer. Midland Naturalist 31 102 Oil immersion was used to check the presence of the basal teeth on the mesosomal leaflets in A[nopheles] quadrimaculatus, [etc.].

1961 Science 16 June 1918/3 Parabuthus planicauda produced a shrill grating sound by scraping the tip of the tail across the first caudal tergite and the last mesosomal one.

1999 Jrnl. Arachnol. 27 123 In Hadrurus arizonensis (Iuridae), ventral plates and then sternites are formed on the ventral surface of mesosomal segments before spiracles appear.

1964 Science 23 Oct. 557/1 The suggestion was made that continuously replicating DNA may be continuously separated through its mesosomal attachment to the continuously expanding membrane-wall exoskeleton.

1974 J. B. Finean et al. Membranes & Cellular Functions vi. 96 Membrane fractions from bacteria, which may include plasma membrane, mesosomal membrane and sometimes the outer membrane of the cell wall, contain from 10 to 30% lipid.

1987 Microbiol. & Immunol. 31 403 Characterization of mesosomes of Micrococcus luteus: isolation and properties of mesosomal ribosomes, and localization of penicillin-binding proteins in mesosomal membranes.