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1888 G. G. Morrice tr. F. Klein Lect. Icosahedron i. i. 13 From both operations together springs the metacyclic group. [Note] We thus denote with Kronecker every group of permutations of a₀, a₁..a_n which is given by ν¹ ≡ cn + k (mod n).

1901 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 23 260 The transitive groups of degree 5..fall naturally into two categories, the first containing the symmetric group and its self-conjugate subgroup, the alternating group, the second containing the metacyclic group, together with its two self-conjugate transitive subgroups.

1929 Amer. Math. Monthly 36 225 The author..gives a method by which the general quintic equation can be transformed into the Brioschi normal form by the adjunction of square roots alone...This method fails only in trivial metacyclic cases.

1964 Jrnl. Algebra 1 113 A nonmetacyclic subgroup of order 2⁵ will have every proper subgroup metacyclic and will itself not be of exponent four.

1995 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 117 383 Therefore by Albert's Theorem.., H is abelian. Also, by Albert's Theorem, H is metacyclic.

1926 C. M. Wenyon Protozool. I. 344 In the case of the development of trypanosomes in the invertebrate, the final infective forms which pass back to the vertebrate have the trypanosome structure... These infective forms have been termed metacyclic trypanosomes by Brumpt (1913).

1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxi. 323 After this interval large numbers of slender metacyclic forms appear in the body cavity of the louse, which remains infective for life.

1978 Nature 22 June 613/1 The trypanosomes causing the various forms of this disease..are transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) in whose internal organs they undergo a complicated cycle of development before they reach the infective metacyclic stage in the fly's saliva.

1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. v. 515/2 Trypanosomes of the T. brucei group are elongated parasites... Metacyclic trypanosomes are similar to the blood forms.

1999 Arch. Biochem. & Biophysics 372 367 Lipophosphoglycan, the predominant surface glycoconjugate in both procyclic and metacyclic stages, is a critical virulence determinant.

1947 Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. 41 11 We have seen metacyclics with two kinetoplasts and two nuclei, but we have not seen further evidence of splitting and separation.

1955 P. A. Buxton Nat. Hist. Tsetse Flies xv. 642 Only 4 of the 19 developed an infection; they had received doses estimated to be 170, 284, 389, and 455 metacyclics.

1988 Parasitology 96 26 The repertoire of variant antigen types displayed by the metacyclics..is both limited and conserved.