Ultrastructure variation in the spermatozoa of Pseudopaludicola frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Leptodactylidae), with brief comments on its phylogenetic relevance.

abstract：:In the present investigation the right intracranial portion of the trochlear nerves and dorsal oblique muscle of the right ocular globe were removed from six adult dogs and analyzed by light and electron microscopy. Unmyelinated fibers were observed in the analyzed nerves. The number, diameter, area, and density of my...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Vivo J,Morales JL,Diz A,Galisteo AM,Monterde JG,Blanco A,Agüera E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques have been applied to three species of phoronids to describe cytological features of their nervous systems. Four types of neurons have been distinguished by morphological and ultrastructural criteria, mainly involving their kinds of vesicles. Glial cells with c...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fernández I,Pardos F,Benito J,Roldán C

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The median fins in extant actinopterygians are the product of millions of years of evolution. During this time, different developmental patterns for the dorsal and anal fins emerged leading to a high variation in median fin morphology and ontogeny. In this study, the development of anal and dorsal fins in atheriniform...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Richter P,Moritz T

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeding mechanisms of two labrid fishes (Cheilinus chlorurus and C. diagrammus: Labridae: Perciformes) are modeled using four-bar linkage theory from mechanical engineering. The actions of the feeding mechanisms are simulated by a computer program that uses morphometric data to calculate the geometry of mechanism ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Westneat MW

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of dying cells in the optic stalk in relation to retinal fiber migration was investigated in the chick embryo. Cell death was analysed at various stages of development by counting pycnotic nuclei and also by the Gomori acid phosphatase reaction, while nerve fibers were visualised by the Bodian method. A wave ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Ulshafer RJ,Clavert A

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypochord of the zebrafish embryo (Danio rerio) emerges at the 9-somite stage as a single row of cells in the dorsomedial endoderm immediately ventral to the notochord. It is recognizable from the 2(nd) or 3(rd) somite and extends along the trunk to the same extent as the somites. A basal lamina surrounds the hypo...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Eriksson J,Löfberg J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tadpoles of several different genera were fed graded suspensions of uniform polystyrene particles to determine the lower size limit of particles that could be ingested. Certain tadpoles can extract suspended particles as small as 0.126 μ in diameter from the water. In terms of particle size, this is an efficiency comp...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wassersug R

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonads from three hermaphrodite species of different invertebrate phyla were studied at the ultastructure level. In the flatworm Dugesia biblica, male germ cells in different stages of development lay in the lumen of testicular follicles surrounded by overlapping parietal cells. The intercellular space formed by c...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： O'Donovan P,Abraham M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hitherto unknown sensillum type, the "intracuticular sensillum" was identified on the dactyls of the walking legs of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Each sensillum is innervated by two sensory cells with dendrites of "scolopidial" (type I) organization. The ciliary segment of the dendrite is 5-6 μm long and contain...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Schmidt M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the morphologic features of neurons in the anterior dorsal ventricular ridge (ADVR) has been followed in Golgi preparations from the lizard Gallotia galloti between embryonic stage 32 and post-eclosion stages of specimens 3.6-4.5 cm in length. The differentiation sequence of multipolar and bitufted ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Díaz C,Yanes C,Medina L,Trujillo CM,Monzón M,Puelles L

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal and external head structures of males of Strepsiptera were examined and the head of a species of Mengenilla is described in detail. The results suggest a reinterpretation of some structures. The head of basal extant strepsipterans is subprognathous, whereas it is strictly orthognathous in the groundplan of St...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Beutel RG,Pohl H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The postembryonic development of the turtle carapace was studied in the aquatic Еmys orbicularis and the terrestrial Тestudo graeca. Differences in the structure of the bony shell in aquatic and terrestrial turtles were shown to be associated with varying degrees of development of epidermal derivatives, namely, the th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Cherepanov G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated if and how the inner ear region undergoes similar adaptations in small, fossorial, insectivoran-grade mammals, and found a variety of inner ear phenotypes. In our sample, afrotherian moles (Chrysochloridae) and the marsupial Notoryctes differ from most other burrowing mammals in their relatively short ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Crumpton N,Kardjilov N,Asher RJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of skeletal muscles throughout craniates shows basic kinds of myosin filament arrangement, simple-lattice and superlattice, within the A-band of each sarcomere. Distribution of simple- and superlattice arrangements across a phylogeny of craniates suggests that the superlattice arrangement is primitive and tha...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Luther PK,Squire JM,Forey PL

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oviducts of 24 tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) were examined using histological techniques and scanning electron microscopy to determine endometrial morphology. Measurements of endometrial characteristics (epithelial cell height, cilia length, thickness of endometrial glandular layer, and glandular diameter) in th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Palmer BD,Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an effort to characterize reproductive modifications in internally inseminating catfishes, ovaries and male reproductive systems were examined histologically in two species of auchenipterid catfishes, Trachelyopterus lucenai and T. galeatus, from southeastern Brazil. Internal insemination was documented in ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Downing Meisner A,Burns JR,Weitzman SH,Malabarba LR

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is a medium-sized felid, with a tendency to hunt for prey larger than itself. We studied the lynx hindlimb musculoskeletal anatomy in order to determine possible anatomical adaptations to hunting large prey. In our previous work, we had found characters of both large and small felids in t...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Viranta S,Holmala K,Laakkonen J

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake and retention of radiolabeled estradiol by both the male and female reproductive organs were examined in the baboon. Two male and two female baboons were injected intracardially with 1 microgram/kg body weight of 3H-estradiol and two animals, one male and one female, were injected with both labeled and 100 ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Weaker FJ,Sheridan PJ

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this research were to investigate the morphology of the thoracic skeleton and muscles of the mosquito, Culiseta inornata (Williston). The results are presented in 25 text figures and descriptions of each skeletal part and muscle. Undescribed exoskeletal structures are the postmediotergite, intersegme...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Owen WB

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated growth-related and sex-related morphological changes in the skulls of 144 North Pacific common minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata. Measurement was conducted at 39 points on the skull and mandible to extract individual allometric equations relating the length and zygomatic width of the skull. The r...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Nakamura G,Kato H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work summarizes the observations on 30 species of microdriles belonging to the families Naididae (Rhyacodrilinae, Pristininae, Naidinae, Phallodrilinae, and Tubificinae), Phreodrilidae, Lumbriculidae, and Enchytraeidae using scanning electron microscopy. The lumbricid Eiseniella tetraedra, a megadrile species com...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Caramelo C,Martínez-Ansemil E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), the pronephros begins to form at the four-somite stage. It is initially continuous with the posterior-lateral region of somite 2 and the lateral margin of somites 3 and 4. By the seven-somite stage, the pronephros has become compacted, and the cells are now morphologically...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gillespie LL,Armstrong JB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Forty-eight species of oribatids in 37 families representing most of the superfamilies were collected from various environments (littoral, salt marsh, litter, sod, and freshwater) and sectioned. 2. The coxal gland is composed of a sacculus and a labyrinth in all stages of all oribatid species. Muscles, originating ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Woodring JP

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large pinnae are characteristic of the Leporids, and the pinna is known to have a thermoregulatory role. Another role has been hypothesized for the pinna of Lepus spp., as a part of a suspensory system for the greater portion of the head, absorbing shock that might otherwise interfere with vision during high-speed loc...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Stott P,Jennings N,Harris S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The egg tooth of squamates evolved to facilitate hatching from mineralized eggshells. Squamate reptiles can assist their hatching with a single unpaired egg tooth (unidentates) or double egg teeth (geckos and dibamids). Egg tooth ontogeny in two gekkotan species, the leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius and the mourni...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hermyt M,Metscher B,Rupik W

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We described the topography and morphometry of the testicular artery, pampiniform plexus veins, and indirect connections between them in the spermatic cord of the bull. Sixty microcorrosive casts of bovine spermatic cords were analyzed macroscopically, by stereomicroscopy, and by scanning electron microscopy. The aver...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Polguj M,Jȩdrzejewski KS,Topol M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) are the most commonly used laboratory songbird species, yet their embryological development has been poorly characterized. Most studies to date apply Hamburger and Hamilton stages derived from chicken development; however, significant differences in development between precocial and...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Murray JR,Varian-Ramos CW,Welch ZS,Saha MS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequential changes during spermatogenesis in the testis of two species of caecilians, Ichthyophis tricolor (Ichthyophiidae) and Uraeotyphlus cf. narayani (Uraeotyphliidae), of Western Ghats of Kerala, India, were traced using both histological techniques and transmission electron microscopy. The cell nests were as...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Smita M,Oommen OV,Jancy MG,Akbarsha MA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bristle positions in two rows of bristles on the basitarsus of the second leg of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster were analyzed in order to determine the accuracy of bristle placement within these rows. Within each row the positions of the two terminal bristles were found to be approximately equally variable, and ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Held LI Jr,Pham TT

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00