Functional morphology of the feeding apparatus, feeding constraints, and suction performance in the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum.

abstract：:The olfactory epithelium and the vomeronasal organ of the Japanese striped snake were examined by lectin histochemistry. Of the 21 lectins used in the study, all lectins except succinylated-wheat germ agglutinin (s-WGA) showed similar binding patterns in the vomeronasal receptor cells and the olfactory receptor cells ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kondoh D,Yamamoto Y,Nakamuta N,Taniguchi K,Taniguchi K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of the upper, lower, and pharyngeal jaws is very similar among American cichlids. Common conditions are: (1) the presence of a premaxillary dentigerous arm shorter than the ascending arm (exceptions are Astronotus, Cichla, and Crenicichla semifasciata), (2) a narrow coulter area; in contrast, a broad co...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Casciotta JR,Arratia G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural observations and glyoxilic acid-induced fluorescence of catecholamines indicate that tracts of axons lie at the base of the ciliary bands and run throughout their length in bipinnaria and brachiolaria larvae of Pisaster ochraceus. Two types of nerve cells occur at regular intervals within the ciliary b...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Burke RD

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure, attachment and subsequent metamorphosis of larvae of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina were studied by light and electron microscopy. Two points of larval anatomy are of special significance to proper interpretation of the metamorphosis: 1 Two cytologically similar blastemal tissues, each laden with f...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Woollacott RM,Zimmer RL

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogenesis discontinues during both adult reproductive diapause and quiescence in the flightless males of Omorgus freyi. During both types of dormancy, spermatogenesis discontinuity is a dynamic process involving an uninterrupted supply of primary spermatocytes that undergoes partial development and lyses before ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Friedländer M,Scholtz CH

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate head as a major novelty is directly linked to the evolutionary success of the vertebrates. Sequential information on the embryonic pattern of cartilaginous head development are scarce, but important for the understanding of its evolution. In this study, we use the oriental fire bellied toad, Bombina ori...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lukas P,Olsson L

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding mechanics of vertebrates depend on physical constraints of the surrounding media, water or air. Such functions are inseparably combined with form. The aim of this study is to show this linkage for the pleurodiran freshwater turtle Pelusios castaneus and, additionally, to point out the major functional and biom...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lemell P,Beisser CJ,Weisgram J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chimaeroid holocephalian fishes are distinguished among extant chondrichthyans by the possession of three pairs of tooth plates, evergrowing and partially hypermineralized, that are not shed and replaced like the teeth of living elasmobranchs. Although derivation of the chimaeroid tooth plate from the fusion of me...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Didier DA,Stahl BJ,Zangerl R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skull of the rare bolyeriid snake Casarea dussumieri is described in detail based on high-resolution X-ray CT data. Bolyeriids are unique in their possession of a separate suborbital ossification and a maxilla subdivided into two movably jointed parts, which may be the result of paedomorphic truncation of the deve...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Maisano JA,Rieppel O

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface areas of the tracheal and cuticular systems of Peripatus acacioi individuals of different body weights were determined by morphometric analysis. The results demonstrate that both surfaces increase with body weight, although the observed increase in the surface area of the tracheal system appears to be at a...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Bicudo JEPW

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons of skull shape between closely related species can provide information on the role that phylogeny and function play in cranial evolution. We used 3D-anatomical landmarks in order to study the skull ontogeny of two closely related species, Lagenorhynchus obscurus and Lagenorhynchus australis, with a total s...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Del Castillo DL,Viglino M,Flores DA,Cappozzo HL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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 reproductive process in insects may be affected by several factors, among which environmental temperature is one of the most important because of the poikilothermic condition of insects. To determine the effect of suboptimal temperature on the spermiogenic process of Triatoma infestans, males were exposed to 12°C ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Giojalas LC

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater sponges of the family Spongillidae reproduce sexually through formation of a parenchymula larva. The cytochemical characteristics of parenchymula larval metamorphosis - beginning with the blastula and terminating with the motile escape stage - for the spongillid Eunapius fragilis (Leidy) have been defined u...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Harrison FW,Cowden RR

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The masticatory pattern of Sphenodon punctatus, the sole remaining rhynchocephalian, now restricted to islands off the coast of New Zealand, has been analyzed by detailed anatomy, cinematography, cinefluoroscopy, and electromyography. Food reduction consists of a closing, crushing bite followed by a propalineal slidin...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gorniak GC,Rosenberg HI,Gans C

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：:Astroblepidae or "climbing catfishes" encompass a single genus of species living in high altitude rivers in the Andes of South America. They are characterized by a specialized head morphology closely resembling their better known, widely radiated sister family Loricariidae, or armored suckermouth catfishes. Existent d...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： De Crop W,Pauwels E,Van Hoorebeke L,Geerinckx T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral dentition and type and number of taste buds (TB) on the lips and in the oropharyngeal cavity were compared by means of SEM in 11 species of cardinal fishes (Apogonidae) belonging to five genera. The occurrence of a dense cover of skin papillae on the lips of some species (e.g., Apogon frenatus), as well as di...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fishelson L,Delarea Y,Zverdling A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of minimum-weight structures that retain their integrity under dynamic loading regimes has long challenged engineers. One solution to this problem found in both human and biological design is the optimization of weight and strength by hollowing a structure and replacing its inner core with supportive struts...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Dean MN,Huber DR,Nance HA

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：:Three regions of the byssus of the marine mussel Mytilus edulis L. are distinct in structural organization at the macroscopic and microscopic level and in amino acid composition. The threads that emanate from the stem at the base of the foot are divided into two regions. The proximal, elastic region has a crimped, den...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Benedict CV,Waite JH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of hormone replacement to support limb regeneration in hypophysectomized newts has been the subject of many investigations. Growth hormone, as well as prolactin (PL) in combination with exogenously supplied thyroxine, have all been shown to he effective. However, the bovine growth hormone used to support limb ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hessler AC,Landesman R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of two of the cranial lateral line canals is described in the cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus. Four stages of canal morphogenesis are defined based on histological analysis of the supraorbital and mandibular canals. "Canal enclosure" and "canal ossification" are defined as two discrete stages in l...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Tarby ML,Webb JF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The red pulp of the spleens of the short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) and the Pacific bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus gilli) (Odontoceti) were examined by light and electron microscopy and found to comprise two venous layers, an inner and an outer. The inner layer is homologous to the inter...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Tanaka Y

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structural characteristics of epithelial cells of the anal vesicle in the hymenopteran parasitoid, Microplitis croceipes (Cresson), are similar to those of transport cells. Apical and basal infoldings, an abundance of mitochondria, ribosomes, rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi complexes and pinocytotic vesicl...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Edson KM,Norton WN,Vinson SB

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraspecific trends in freshwater mussel (unionoid) shells that are consistently associated with differences in the mussels' sex and/or parasitic infestation can potentially be used to reconstruct sex ratios or parasitic levels of modern and ancient unionoid populations. In contrast to morphological patterns within m...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Zieritz A,Aldridge DC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear egress, also referred to as nuclear envelope (NE) budding, is a process of transport in which vesicles containing molecular complexes or viral particles leave the nucleus through budding from the inner nuclear membrane (INM) to enter the perinuclear space. Following this event, the perinuclear vesicles (PNVs) ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： LaMassa N,Arenas-Mena C,Phillips GR

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The female reproductive system of Sphaerodema rusticum consists of a pair of ovaries, two lateral oviducts, a median common oviduct, and a median spermatheca. Accessory glands are absent. Each ovary has five free ovarioles branching from the oviduct. Each ovariole consists of a terminal filament, germarium, vitellariu...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Jawale SM,Ranade DR

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The external surface of the cornea and adjacent epidermis of larvae in representative developmental stages and of adult frogs, Rana pipiens, was studied by scanning electron microscopy. Surface cells are polygonal, usually hexagonal, in outline and covered with microprojections. During larval development prior to meta...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kaltenbach JC,Harding CV,Susan S

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00