Development of yolk sac and chorioallantoic membranes in the Lord Howe Island skink, Oligosoma lichenigerum.

abstract：:The cytoarchitecture and neuronal morphology of the torus semicircularis in the red-eared turtle, Chrysemys scripta elegans, were examined in Nissl-stained and Golgi-impregnated material. The torus semicircularis begins in the caudodorsal mesencephalon and extends rostrally and laterally to end ventrally to the tectal...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Browner RH,Kennedy MC,Facelle T

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basket stars, that is, Ophiuroidea in Echinodermata, exhibit distinctive morphological characteristics with their complicatedly branched arms that can regenerate immediately after mutilation. Although, in brittle stars, that is, ophiuroids with nonbranched arms, the arm regeneration process following accidental trauma...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Okanishi M,Kohtsuka H,Miura T

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Larval salivary gland cells of seven Drosophila species from the melanogaster group were studied during the early third-instar period. Similar cytoplasmic organization was seen in both the distal and proximal parts of the gland. The cytoplasm contained a large number of free ribosomes, but only a few rough endoplasmic...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Thomopoulos GN

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forelimbs, along with the crania, are an essential part of the prey-killing apparatus in cats. Linear morphometrics of the forelimbs were used to determine the morphological differences between felids that specialize on large prey, small prey, or mixed prey. We also compared the scaling of felid forelimbs to those...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Meachen-Samuels J,Van Valkenburgh B

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paired tubular accessory glands in Haemaphysalis longicornis open at the junction of the cervical and the vestibular parts of vagina via short and narrow ducts. The pseudostratified columnar glandular epithelium covered by the muscle layer consists of both secretory and supporting cells. As feeding proceeds, the s...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kakuda H,Koga T,Mori T,Shiraishi S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, geometric morphometric methods have become increasingly popular and powerful tools to describe morphological data while over the same period artificial neural networks have had a similar rise in the classification of specimens to preconceived groups. However, there has been little research i...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Soda KJ,Slice DE,Naylor GJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The combined techniques of light microscopy, scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron microscopy were used for the first time to study the structure of unicameral lungs of a Tegu lizard (Tupinambis nigropunctatus). The lungs are prolate spheroid bags with blood supplied by superficial branches of a dorsal pulmon...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Klemm RD,Gatz RN,Westfall JA,Fedde MR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septate junctions develop initially just basad from apical junctional complexes at the apical ends of regenerating gastrodermal cells. The first morphological indication of differentiation of the junction is the appearance of gentle undulations of the plasma membranes of apposing cells. Subsequently dense dots develop...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hori I

更新日期：1987-06-01 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 nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, is an obligate suction feeder that preys on benthic invertebrates and fish. Its cranial morphology exhibits a suite of structural and functional modifications that facilitate this mode of prey capture. During suction-feeding, subambient pressure is generated by the ventral expa...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Motta PJ,Hueter RE,Tricas TC,Summers AP,Huber DR,Lowry D,Mara KR,Matott MP,Whitenack LB,Wintzer AP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caudal courtship glands (CCGs) are sexually dimorphic glands described in the skin of the dorsal tail base of some male salamanders in the genera Desmognathus, Eurycea, and Plethodon in the family Plethodontidae. These glands are believed to deliver pheromones to females during courtship, when the female rests her chi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Sever DM,Siegel DS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the allometric scaling relationships of the cetacean humerus, radius, and ulna. Bone lengths and diameters were measured for 20 species of odontocete and three species of mysticete cetaceans, representing eight of the nine extant cetacean families. The scaling of individual bone proportions (bone l...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Dawson SD

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological and electron-microscopical studies of the head-kidney ontogenesis in a group of bottomspawner and mouthbrooder cichlid fishes reveal that this organ undergoes three functional and structural stages. At the initial stage, 2-12 days after fertilization, the head-kidney is a filtering organ of two glomeruli ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fishelson L

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine structural changes in mitochondrial morphology pertaining to size, number and growth were examined in flight muscles of normal and experimentally dewinged male Drosophila melanogaster ranging up to 26 days of age. In the normal winged flies, the number of mitochondria decreases during the first week of adult lif...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Sohal RD

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of sexual reproduction and embryogenesis was compared in 3 species of Botrylloides: B. simodensis, B. lenis, and B. violaceus. In all species, a testis and an egg (occasionally 2 eggs), the former being anterior to the latter, mature in the mantle on either side of a zooid. The egg is surrounded by 2 follicul...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mukai H,Saito Y,Watanabe H

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Regional variation in the vertebral column of several species of salamanders (families Ambystomatidae, Salamandridae and Plethodontidae) is analyzed. Measurements of three dimensions, centrum length, prezygapophyseal width, and transverse process length, provide the data. Ontogenetic, interspecific, intergeneric and i...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Worthington RD,Wake DB

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among species of the Chiroptera, spermatogenesis and the fully differentiated spermatozoa differ in morphological and ultrastructural detail. This study therefore aimed to ultrastructurally characterize the spermatogenesis and the spermatozoa of Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae) and compare the process with othe...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Beguelini MR,Bueno LM,Caun DL,Taboga SR,Morielle-Versute E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two free-living marine euplotid ciliates, Pseudodiophrys nigricans and Diophrys japonica, collected from the coastal waters off Qingdao, northern China, were investigated using live observations and protargol impregnation methods. The cortical development of P. nigricans was observed during binary division. Although i...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fan Y,Warren A,Al-Farraj SA,Chen X,Shao C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swimming crabs of the taxon Portunoidea show specialized, paddle-shaped fifth pereiopods (P5), which play a role in these crabs' ability to swim. In this study, the morphology of the fifth pereiopod in swimming and non-swimming crabs was studied in detail and the mobility in the articulations between podomeres was cal...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Schmidt M,Hazerli D,Richter S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The form and function of the hesperiid feeding apparatus was studied in detail. The butterflies in the family Hesperiidae are of particular interest because the longest proboscis ever recorded in Papilionoidea was found in the Neotropical genus Damas. We focused on the functional morphology by comparing proboscis morp...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Krenn HW,Bauder JA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied early neurulation events in vitro by transplanting quail Hensen's node, central prenodal regions (before the nodus as such develops), or upper layer parts of it on the not yet definitively committed upper layer of chicken anti-sickle regions (of unincubated blastoderms), eventually associated with central b...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Callebaut M,Van Nueten E,Van Passel H,Harrisson F,Bortier H

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory epithelia of the oral tube, a fungiform body anterior to the tentacles and of the terminal knob of tentacles, were studied in Ovatella myosotis by electron microscopy. All three epithelia consist of columnar support cells, sensory cells, and, except in the oral tube, numerous goblet cells. The epithelia differ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wondrak G

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematocytes containing microbasic mastigophores are intimately associated with accessory cells in the epidermis of Chironex fleckeri. Large microbasic mastigophores may be surrounded by seven to nine such cells. Each accessory cell possesses an apical portion containing secretory droplets and a basal portion which car...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rifkin JF,Endean R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory system of the pigeon (Columba livia) was examined. Our electrophysiological and experimental neuroanatomical (Fink-Heimer technique) data showed that axons from the olfactory bulb terminated in both sides of the forebrain. The cortex prepiriformis (olfactory cortex), the hyperstriatum ventrale and the lo...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rieke GK,Wenzel BM

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus, is a nocturnal marine teleost that uses social acoustic signals for communication during the breeding season. Nesting type I males produce multiharmonic advertisement calls by contracting their swim bladder sonic muscles to attract females for courtship and spawning wh...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mohr RA,Whitchurch EA,Anderson RD,Forlano PM,Fay RR,Ketten DR,Cox TC,Sisneros JA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burrow construction in the subterranean Ctenomys talarum (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) primarily occurs by scratch-digging. In this study, we compared the limbs of an ontogenetic series of C. talarum to identify variation in bony elements related to fossorial habits using a morphometrical and biomechanical approach. Diamete...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Echeverría AI,Becerra F,Vassallo AI

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellum of the thysanopteran spermatozoon has been examined by electron microscopy and computer-aided image analysis. The flagellum consists of 27 microtubular elements that probably are formed as outgrowths from three separate basal bodies. Nine of the elements are normal microtubular doublets that carry dynein...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Dallai R,Afzelius BA,Lanzavecchia S,Bellon PL

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gross relationships and light microscopic anatomy of the suprarenal gland of a prosimian primate, Galago senegalensis, is described. The left gland is located medial to the pole of the left kidney in a fascial compartment of its own. The right suprarenal is located medial to the pole of the right kidney in intimat...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Carrmicheal SW,Haines DE,Pinkstaff CA

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00