An updated description of the osteology of the pancake tortoise Malacochersus tornieri (Testudines: Testudinidae) with special focus on intraspecific variation.

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：:External and internal structures of the head of adults of Clambus are described and illustrated in detail. The results are compared with structural features found in the clambid genus Calyptomerus, in representatives of other scirtoid families, and also in species of other coleopteran suborders, notably Myxophaga. The...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Anton E,Yavorskaya MI,Beutel RG

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prey capture in Agama stellio was recorded by high-speed video in combination with the electrical activity of both jaw and hyolingual muscles. Quantification of kinematics and muscle activity patterns facilitated their correlation during kinematic phases. Changes in angular velocity of the gape let the strike be subdi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Herrel A,Cleuren J,De Vree F

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological features of the goldfish caudal neurosecretory system were investigated by means of immunohistochemical localization of urotensins I and II (UI and UII) and electron microscopic examination of the caudal neurosecretory neurons, the urophysis, and the synaptic neuropil. The aim of the work is to provide a...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Cioni C,De Vito L,Greco A,Pepe A

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:Formation of the first epidermal layers in the embryonic scales of the lizard Lampropholis guichenoti was studied by optical and electron microscopy. Morphogenesis of embryonic scales is similar to the general process in lizards, with well-developed overlapping scales being differentiated before hatching. The narrow o...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Alibardi L,Thompson MB

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:Amphisbaenians are fossorial, predominantly limbless squamate reptiles with distinct cranial shapes corresponding to specific burrowing behaviors. Due to their cryptic lifestyles and the scarcity of museum specimens, little is known of their intraspecific variation, particularly regarding cranial osteology. This repre...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hipsley CA,Rentinck MN,Rödel MO,Müller J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description of the external morphogenesis of male and female embryos of X. ferrugineus, derived from in vivo observation, is presented here. The embryogenesis of this beetle is typical of the Coleoptera, and is also similar in most respects to the generalized insect plan. Observed unusual aspects of X. ferrugineus e...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Beeman SL,Norris DM

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a detailed description of the larval morphology of the Great Basin spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus intermontanus), a species with documented morphological variability in larval structures associated with feeding. We based our findings on laboratory-raised individuals fed a herbivorous diet. We characterized the ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hall JA,Larsen JH Jr,Fitzner RE

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron microscopy of postnatally developing gerbil vagina (birth to maturity) shows that longitudinal folds form prior to transverse folds; the process of fold formation is initiated on the dorsal wall and proceeds ventrally. From days 1 to 7 postnatally, the vaginal epithelium is composed of either flat or...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kress A,Spornitz UM,Zobrist R

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The vomeronasal system consists of a peripheral organ and the connected central neuronal networks. The central connections are sexually dimorphic in rodents, and in some species, parameters of the vomeronasal organ (VNO) vary with sex, hormonal exposure, body size and seasonality. The VNO of the dasyurid marsupial mou...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Aland RC,Gosden E,Bradley AJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interradicular periodontal ligament of mandibular molars contains an apparently unique dilated vessel straddling the interradicular alveolar bone. This structure is designated a venous ampulla. The vessel possesses a luminal length and width of approximately 200 X 100 microns, respectively. Ultrastructurally, the ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Sims MR

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembryonic skeletal ontogeny of the pelobatid frog Scaphiopus intermontanus is described based on a developmental series of cleared-and-stained, whole-mount specimens. The focus is on laboratory-reared individuals fed a herbivorous diet as larvae. Although there is variation in the timing of ossification of individ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hall JA,Larsen JH Jr

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely large number of fifth ceratobranchial teeth, with highly modified, striated, and hooked tips were observed in the central and western Pacific sicydiine goby genus Stiphodon.A scanning electron microscopic study of the form and arrangement of fifth ceratobranchial teeth was conducted to assess the distribu...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Parenti LR,Thomas KR

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Based on light microscopic observations, nerve pathways are described for the first time in the praesoma of a species of the Echinorhynchidae. The pathways are described for 18 nerves, 8 paired and 2 single, which originate from the cerebral ganglion and a post-ganglionic cell and terminate in the body wall musculatur...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gee RJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of the jaw suspension and jaw protrusion mechanism in lamniform sharks is described and mapped onto a cladogram to investigate how changes in jaw suspension and protrusion have evolved. This has revealed that several evolutionary modifications in the musculoskeletal apparatus of the jaws have taken plac...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wilga CD

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barnacle cypris larvae show high morphological variation in the organs used in search of and attaching to a substratum. This variation may represent adaptation to the habitat of the species. Here, we studied SEM level morphologies of cypris antennular sensory and attachment organs in a deep-sea vent endemic species (N...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Yorisue T,Chan BK,Kado R,Watanabe H,Inoue K,Kojima S,Høeg JT

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branchial food traps are regions of specialized secretory tissue in the tadpole pharynx, where suspended food particles are trapped in mucus. Light and scanning electron microscopy were used to study branchial food traps from larvae of ten anuran families (36 species). Most anuran larvae from "advanced" (suborder Neob...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wassersug RJ,Rosenberg K

更新日期：1979-03-01 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 evolution of viviparity alters the physical relationship between mothers and offspring and the prevalence of viviparity among squamate reptiles presents an opportunity to uncover patterns in the evolution of placental structure. Understanding the breadth of this diversity is limited because studies of placental st...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Stewart JR,Mendez de la Cruz FR

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:This research was designed to follow up the observation of Thornton and Kraemer ('51) that regressed, denervated limbs of Ambystoma larvae will not regenerate upon reinnervation if all digits on the limbs were not completely resorbed. The object of this experiment was to determine whether the presence of an apical str...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Carlson BM

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External features of the egg, developing embryo, and first instar nymph of Kamimuria tibialis are described. The embryonic development from the germ disc to the full-grown embryo is divided into 12 stages. The saclike embryonic rudiment is formed by the bending and folding of the germ disc. The embryo first elongates ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kishimoto T,Ando H

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00