Occipital spine of Orthacanthus (Xenacanthidae, Elasmobranchii): structure and growth.

abstract：:Reconstruction of limb posture is a challenging task in assessing functional morphology and biomechanics of extinct tetrapods, mainly because of the wide range of motions possible at each limb joint and because of our poor knowledge of the relationship between posture and musculoskeletal structure, even in the extant ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fujiwara S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To illustrate vascular modification accompanying transition from aquatic to amphibious life in gobies, we investigated the respiratory vasculatures of the gills and the bucco-opercular cavities in one of the most terrestrially-adapted mudskippers, Periophthalmodon schlosseri, using the corrosion casting technique. The...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gonzales TT,Katoh M,Ghaffar MA,Ishimatsu A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the male reproductive cycle of Sibynomorphus mikanii from southeastern Brazil considering macroscopic and microscopic variables. Spermatogenesis occurs during spring-summer (September-December) and spermiogenesis or maturation occurs in summer (December-February). The length and width of the kidne...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rojas CA,Barros VA,Almeida-Santos SM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several muroid rodent species are distributed throughout southern Africa. Some species are reportedly classified as opportunistic omnivorous rodents consuming plant, seed, and insect material. This study aims to provide a detailed morphometric analysis of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of four such omnivorous specie...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Henke Z,Sahd L,Matthee S,Kotzé SH

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the functional morphology of the female reproductive system of the purple stone crab Danielethus crenulatus. The most remarkable feature is the relative storage capacity and extensibility of the seminal receptacles. These receptacles are a pair of simple sacs that lack internal structures dividing the inter...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Farias NE,Spivak ED,Luppi TA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the forearm flexors of the horse, the superficial and deep digital flexor muscles, are critical to support the digital and fetlock joints, exhibit differing insertions, and are passively supported by the proximal and distal check ligaments, respectively. These two muscles differ in histochemical composition and...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hermanson JW,Cobb MA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cubozoans have a complex lifecycle in many ways similar to the scyphozoan lifecycle. The sexual reproduction within cubozoans varies between species with one clade having copulation and internal fertilization and the release of planula larvae. This cubozoan clade, the family Tripedaliidae, includes three species, Copu...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Helmark S,Garm A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crocodilian naris is regulated by smooth muscle. The morphology of this system was investigated using a combination of gross, light microscopic, and micro-CT analyses, while the mechanics of narial regulation were examined using a combination of Hall Effect sensors, narial manometry, and electromyography. Alligato...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Klassen M,Adams J,Cramberg M,Knoche L,Young BA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At mating, female insects generally receive and store sperm in specific organs of their reproductive tract called spermathecae. Some Heteroptera, such as Cimicomorpha, lack a true spermatheca; some have receptacles of novel formation where sperm cells can transit or be stored. In Tingidae, there are two sac-like diver...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Marchini D,Del Bene G,Dallai R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermiogenesis in the South American leptodactylid frog Odontophrynus cultripes was analyzed ultrastructurally. The spermatids undergo morphological modification while still enclosed in microtubule-rich processes of Sertoli cells. Electron-dense plates resembling junctional structures appear in regions at which the sp...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Báo SN,Dalton GC,de Oliveira SF

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All extant members of Phocoenidae (porpoises) have been characterized as pedomorphic based on skeletal characters. To investigate the ontogenetic background for pedomorphosis and assess interspecific differences in ontogeny among phocoenids, samples of the six extant species were compared in terms of development of bo...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Galatius A,Berta A,Frandsen MS,Goodall RN

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structure of the mid-gut musculature of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria is described and compared with that of the visceral muscles of other species. The gross morphology and fine structure of the nervous system which supplies the mid-gut muscle fibres is described. ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Anderson M,Cochrane DG

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from adult birds, crocodilians, Sphenodon, squamates, turtles, and from the chick embryo are compared to test conflicting hypotheses of homology of the deep dorsal thigh muscles of birds and other reptiles. This comparison suggests that: (1) avian Mm. iliofemoralis externus and iliotrochantericus caudalis (herein...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rowe T

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the ileum of the ant Formica nigricans by light and electron microscopy revealed the existence of three differentiated regions: proximal, middle, and distal ileum. The middle region constitutes most of the length of the organ. Its wall is made up by a folded simple epithelium lined by a cuticle, which is ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Villaro AC,Garayoa M,Lezaun MJ,Sesma P

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the embryological and anatomical disparities present among lophotrochozoan phyla, there are morphological similarities in the cellular arrangements of ciliated cells used for propulsion among the nonfeeding larval forms of kamptozoans, nemerteans, annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans. Evaluating whether these sim...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Santagata S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-innervated macrotrichia and microtrichia, thick-walled chemoreceptors and three kinds of thin-walled chemoreceptors are present on the antennal flagellum of Frenesia missa. One of the thin-walled receptors, the plate organ, is of a type not previously recorded for any insect. About four times as many plate organs ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Slifer EH,Sekhon SS

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone is a dynamic tissue adapting to loading according to "Wolff's law of bone adaptation." During very early life, however, such a mechanism may not be adequate enough to adapt to the dramatic change in environmental challenges in precocial species. Their neonates are required to stand and walk within hours after bir...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gorissen BM,Wolschrijn CF,van Vilsteren AA,van Rietbergen B,van Weeren PR

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlative studies of luminescent responses, light and electron microscopy of Porichthys photophores during development were conducted. The photophores differentiate as an outgrowth of the basal cell layer of the epidermis, from which they delaminate into the dermis. Reflector cells are formed from dermal fibroblasts...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Anctil M

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammary gland is a common site of neoplasms in the female cat. All the malignant tumors metastasize to a lesser or a greater extent through the lymphatic system. However, the anatomical knowledge of this system is not sufficiently well known in cats to develop a reasoned model for the extirpation of these glands i...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Raharison F,Sautet J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the growing interest in rodents with subterranean activity in general and the spalacids (Spalacidae) in particular, little is known about the biology of most members of this clade, such as the Chinese bamboo rat (Rhizomys sinensis). Here, we analyzed the ear morphology of R. sinensis with respect to hearin...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Pleštilová L,Hrouzková E,Burda H,Šumbera R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance, cellular distribution, and changes of sugar residues during tooth development in adults of the polyphyodont, Liolaemus gravenhorsti, were investigated by using horseradish-peroxidase-conjugate lectins (lectin-HRP). With Con A (Canavalia ensiformis), the ameloblasts (late bell stage) show granular supra...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lemus D,Cabello R,Lemus R,Soto M,Fuenzalida M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liolaemus elongatus (Liolaemidae) is a viviparous, mainly lecithotrophic species with placental structures specialized for uptake of oxygen and inorganic nutrient transport. An allantoplacenta and an omphaloplacenta are present during early embryonic stages (25-28) and there is a moderate distension of the uterine wal...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Crocco M,Ibarguengoytía NR,Cussac V

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the septomaxilla of nonmammalian synapsids has long been problematic. Distinctive features of this bone, including a prominent intranarial process and a septomaxillary canal and foramen, are characteristic of pelycosaurs and nonmammalian therapsids, but are lost in their mammalian descendants. Numerous...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hillenius WJ

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunocytochemistry at light- and electron-microscope levels, we studied the distribution of three monoclonal antibodies (AE1, AE2, AE3) specific for mammalian alpha-keratins in regenerating lizard epidermis. We also characterized the keratins expressed during this process by immunoblotting after electrophoretic...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Alibardi L,Maurizii MG,Taddei C

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity and taxonomic distribution of paranasal sinuses among living platyrrhines has remained a contentious issue (e.g., Cave [1967] Am J Phys Anthropol 26:277-288 vs. Hershkovitz [1977] Chicago: University of Chicago Press) largely because the ontogenetic data required for their detection and identification (e....

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rossie JB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuromuscular control of the hind limb of helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) locomoting on a treadmill at 1.0 m/sec was analyzed using simultaneous electromyography (EMG) and cineradiography. Activity from 16 heads representing 14 hip and knee muscles was recorded and correlated with limb movement and myologic...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gatesy SM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prowfish, Zaprora silenus, is the sole member of the family Zaproridae. It is a large, relatively elongate species with a robust head and body, and it feeds primarily on jellyfishes. Although the larvae and juveniles are pelagic, the adults are demersal, and the species is widely distributed from Southern Californ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hilton EJ,Stevenson DE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sceloporus aeneus exhibits reproductive bimodality. That is, one taxon (Sceloporus aeneus bicanthalis) is viviparous whereas the other (Sceloporus aeneus aeneus) is oviparous. Morphological differences in luteal and oviductal structure were examined. Oviparous and viviparous females have distinct corpora lutea that fo...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Guillette LJ Jr,Jones RE

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete postorbital bars, bony arches that encompass the lateral aspect of the eye and form part of a circular orbit, have evolved homoplastically multiple times during mammalian evolution. Numerous functional hypotheses have been advanced for postorbital bars, the most promising being that postorbital bars function ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Heesy CP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain-microvascular architecture of the newt (Triturus cristatus carnifex) was studied by scanning electron-microscopical examination of microvascular corrosion casts. It is characterized at the leptomeningeal level by a superficial network of single vessels that leave the meningeal sheath to form hairpin-shaped c...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lazzari M,Ciani F,Franceschini V

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00