Skull ontogeny and modularity in two species of Lagenorhynchus: Morphological and ecological implications.

abstract：:Scleractinian corals begin their biomineralization process shortly after larval settlement with the formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO(3)) structures at the interface between the larval tissues and the substrate. The newly settled larvae exert variable degrees of control over this skeleton formation, providing an op...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gilis M,Meibom A,Alexander D,Grauby O,Stolarski J,Baronnet A

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Tardigrada, commonly called water bears, is a taxon of microscopic panarthropods with five-segmented bodies and four pairs of walking legs. Although tardigrades have been known to science for several centuries, questions remain regarding many aspects of their biology, such as embryogenesis. Herein, we used scanning el...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gross V,Minich I,Mayer G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SEM was used to study the development of respiratory structures in successive stages in relation to the overall changes occurring in the scorpions. Book lung development is a slow process, starting with spiracles and a sac-like atrium in the early embryo and continuing lamellar formation to 150 or more in the adul...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Farley RD

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mating has been described in several hermit crab species, the mechanics of spermatophore transfer have not previously been demonstrated. Evidence from pleopod and gonopore morphology, video observations, and inseminated females indicates that in Clibanarius vittatus the male applies a spermatophoric mass dire...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hess GS,Bauer RT

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zambian common mole-rats are subterranean rodents that live in families with only one female breeding. Her offspring remain in the parental nest and do not reproduce. Behavioral experiments (Burda, '95) demonstrated that their apparent "sterility" is based on incest avoidance and individual recognition of family membe...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Willingstorfer WJ,Burda H,Winckler J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunohistochemical labeling against acetylated a-tubulin and serotonin in combination with confocal laser scanning microscopy and 3D-reconstruction, we investigated the temporary freshwater pond inhabitant Branchinella sp. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) for the first time to provide detailed data on the d...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Frase T,Richter S

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apical area of larvae of four primitive pulmonate species was investigated by means of serial ultrathin and light microscope sections. Cephalic sensory organs (CSOs) were found in the larvae of Onchidium cf. branchiferum (Onchidiidae) and Laemodonta octanfracta (Ellobiidae), while no trace of the organ was present...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Ruthensteiner B,Schaefer K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic position of the Ectoprocta within the Lophotrochozoa is discussed controversially. For gaining more insight into ectoproct relationships and comparing it with other potentially related phyla, we analysed the myoanatomy and serotonergic nervous system of adult representatives of the Phylactolaemata (Pl...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Schwaha T,Wanninger A

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The silk production systems of several specimens representing at least three species of the mygalomorph genus Euagrus were examined by dissection and by a variety of absorption and fluorescent histochemical techniques. The intrageneric variation is primarily restricted to gland number, with larger numbers of glands in...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Palmer JM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the complex shapes of myomeres and myosepta in the mackerels and tunas (Scombridae: Teleostei), and we reveal the orientation of two major systems of collagen fibers in myosepta and horizontal septa with respect to points of attachment to skeleton and skin. Our goal is to identify the likely pathways of th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Westneat MW,Hoese W,Pell CA,Wainwright SA

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:For the first time the scanning electron microscope was used to compare developmental changes in scorpion embryos and the first and second stadia. In the buthid species of this study, Centruroides vittatus, and all other scorpions, the newborn climb up on their mother's back and remain there without feeding for severa...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Farley RD

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antennal circulatory organ of Periplaneta americana and Blaberus craniifer was investigated by light and electron microscopy. This organ consists of two pulsatile ampullae located near the antennal base which are interconnected by a large transverse muscle and associated blood vessels which run into the antennae. ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Pass G

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gross and microscopic anatomy of epidermal glands has been studied in laboratory maintained tokays (Gekko gecko), and house geckos (Hemidactylus bowringii) captured from the wild throughout the year. Annual testicular activity in the house gecko has also been studied. While no significant differences in glandular ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Chiu KW,Maderson PF

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatozoa from representatives of the five insect orders in superorder Neuropteroidea were examined by electron microscopy following a new fixation method that includes tannic acid in the primary fixative but has uranyl acetate rather than osmium tetroxide as the secondary fixative. The sperm axoneme was found to be...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Afzelius BA,Dallai R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wall of the asymmetrical saclike lungs of the fishes Polypterus and Erpetoichthys consists of several functionally different tissue layers. Their lumen is lined by a surface epithelium composed of (1) highly attenuated cells, termed pneumocytes I; (2) pneumocytes II with lamellar bodies, presumably indicating surf...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lechleuthner A,Schumacher U,Negele RD,Welsch U

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origins and evolution of the three major clades of modern amphibians are still a source of controversy, and no general consensus exists as to their relationship to the various known Paleozoic taxa. This may indicate that additional character complexes should be studied to resolve their phylogenetic relationship. T...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Sigurdsen T,Bolt JR

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several orders of morphologically four-winged insects have evolved mechanisms that enforce a union between the mesothoracic and metathoracic wings (forewings and hindwings) during the wing beat cycle. Such mechanisms result in a morphologically tetrapterous insect flying as if it were functionally dipterous, and these...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Stocks IC

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mate, prey, and predator recognition often depend on the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities including visual, auditory, and/or olfactory inputs. In Crotalinae, the eyes sense visible light while the pit organs detect infrared (IR) radiation. Previous studies indicate that there is significant ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Liu Y,Chen Q,Papenfuss TJ,Lu F,Tang Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports a comprehensive description of penaeid spermatogenesis (Penaeus monodon) by light and transmission electron microscopy. A conspicuous characteristic of spermatocytogenesis was a ring-like structure with high electron-density adjacent to the nucleus of a primary spermatocyte. During the spermiogenesi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Feng T,Paterson B,Johnston SD

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sabellid and sabellariid polychaetes are regarded as sister groups in a number of recent phylogenetic analyses. This is based mainly on a shared specific arrangement of chaetae referred to as chaetal inversion. Remarkably, the uncini have a notopodial position in the abdomen, whereas capillary chaetae occur in the neu...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kieselbach D,Hausen H

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Asymmetrical monorchy, or the complete absence of one testis coupled with the presence of its bilateral counterpart, is reported for 174 species of the carabid beetle tribes Abacetini, Harpalini, and Platynini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) based on a survey of over 820 species from throughout the family. This condi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Will KW,Liebherr JK,Maddison DR,Galián J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptaculum seminis, opening into the female genital tract, is found only in the metastriate ixodid ticks. An endospermatophore that has been inserted into the female genital aperture at copulation is first stored in the receptaculum seminis, where spermiogenesis is completed before the sperm ascend the oviducts....

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kakuda H,Mōri T,Shiraishi S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South American Pipidae show a unique reproductive mode, in which the fertilized eggs develop in temporarily formed brood chambers of the dorsal skin after eggs have been deposited on the back of the female. We studied the skin incubation of Pipa carvalhoi using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The sk...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Greven H,Richter S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian tongue contains two types of papilla which are believed to function in gustation and in the secretion of salivary fluid. Scanning electron microscopy reveals that columnar, filiform papillae are compactly distributed over nearly the entire dorsal surface of the tongue of the frog, Rana cancrivora, and fu...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Iwasaki S,Wanichanon C

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：: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