Dorsal lingual epithelium of Platemys pallidipectoris (Pleurodira, Chelidae).

abstract：:Clasper gland morphology and development in Potamotrygon magdalenae and its relation with the acquisition of reproductive maturity is described in males of different developmental stages (embryos, neonates, juveniles, and reproductively active and resting adults). The glands are subcutaneous masses in the proximal bas...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Anaya-López P,Ramírez-Pinilla MP

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:To provide basic data about bone resorbing cells in the skeleton during the life cycle of Danio rerio, larvae, juveniles, and adults (divided into six age groups) were studied by histological procedures and by demonstration of the osteoclast marker enzyme tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP). Special attention w...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Witten PE,Hansen A,Hall BK

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine priapulid Priapulus caudatus has a voluminous body cavity filled with a blood-like fluid containing erythrocytes and leucocytes (amoebocytes). The hematocrit of animals weighing 0.5-14 gm was 2-10%. The erythrocytes contain a hemerythrin blood pigment. The structure of the coelomocytes was studied by light ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mattisson A,Fänge R

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of the musculature and connective tissues of the arms of Octopus bimaculoides was analyzed with light microscopy. We also studied O. briareus and O. digueti, which possess relatively more elongate and less elongate arms, respectively. The morphology of the arms was found to be remarkably uniform among s...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kier WM,Stella MP

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The spinotectal somatosensory projection was compared in normal, genetically eyeless, and embryonically manipulated salamanders. In normal animals, serotonin fluorescence was restricted to the intermediate tectalneuropil. This same region showed both high levels of serotonin uptake and somatosensory single unit electr...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gruberg ER,Harris WA

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eggs of Xenopoecilus sarasinorum possess two distinct types of filaments on the surface of the egg envelope (chorion), long, attaching filaments restricted to the vegetal pole and weak, nonattaching filaments around the animal pole (micropyle). Both types are formed during oogenesis. After mature eggs were spawned thr...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Iwamatsu T,Kobayashi H,Sato M,Yamashita M

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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：:Embryos of goodeid fishes develop to term within the ovarian lumen, where they undergo considerable increase in weight due to transfer of maternal nutrients across a trophotaenial placenta. The placenta consists of an embryonic component, the trophotaeniae, and a maternal component, the ovarian lining. The latter was ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lombardi J,Wourms JP

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：:Cetacean middle ears are unique among mammals in that they have an elongated tympanic membrane, a greatly reduced manubrium mallei, and an incudal crus longum that is shorter than the crus breve. Elongation of the tympanic membrane and reduction of the manubrium is thought to be related to an evolutionary rotation of ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kinkel MD,Thewissen JG,Oelschläger HA

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：: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 structure of contact chemoreceptors in the cibariopharyngeal pump of the moth Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is described. Two types of receptors designated A and B are located on the floor of the pump. Two groups of 9-12 A receptors are located in the anterior part of the pump, and two groups of two B r...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Eaton JL

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cat hindlimb contains several long, biarticular strap muscles composed of parallel muscle fascicles that attach to short tendons. Three of these muscles--sartorius, tenuissimus, and semitendinosus--were studied by dissecting individual gold-stained fibers and determining the surface distribution of acetylcholinest...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Loeb GE,Pratt CA,Chanaud CM,Richmond FJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stauromedusae have relatively few macromorphological characters, making both their taxonomy and identification difficult. For this reason, histological characters are also employed in the taxonomy of the group. This study presents a detailed description of the histomorphology of Haliclystus antarcticus Pfeffer, 1889 (...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Miranda LS,Collins AG,Marques AC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of squamate epidermal structure have focused on either histology and ultrastructure or oberhautchen surface texture as revealed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Using SEM data drawn from a variety of lizard taxa (primarily iguanids, but also agamids, chamaeleonids, and scincids), as well as amph...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Irish FJ,Williams EE,Seling E

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exceptional variability in the shell of the pancake tortoise Malacochersus tornieri, both in the keratinous surficial scutes and the underlying bones, in addition to its remarkably fenestrated bony shell are unique among tortoises. Based on 14 individuals of different sizes and ages, the observed variation in M. torni...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mautner AK,Latimer AE,Fritz U,Scheyer TM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tooth development and replacement in fetal and adult viviparous caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) are described and analyzed according to current theories of tooth succession. The fetal dentition differs from that of the adult in morphology, position, and function. Teeth are used by fetuses to scrape the oviducal epi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wake MH

更新日期：1976-01-01 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 oval olfactory rosette of the carp Labeo rohita belongs to Burne's ('09) rosette column one or to Bateson's (1889) rosette type three. The total olfactory area of the fish is greater than its total retinal area; however, it has been classified with Teichmann's ('54) group of eye-nose fishes. Each olfactory chamber...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Ojha PP,Kapoor AS

更新日期：1973-05-01 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：:The dorsal fin is one of the most varied swimming structures in Acanthomorpha, the spiny-finned fishes. This fin can be present as a single contiguous structure supported by bony spines and soft lepidotrichia, or it may be divided into an anterior, spiny dorsal fin and a posterior, soft dorsal fin. The freshwater fish...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Weickhardt AF,Feilich KL,Lauder GV

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are remarkable interspecific differences in the sizes of the larvae of Andean frogs of the genus Telmatobius. This size variation seems to be associated with the duration of the larval stage and may affect the hind-limb morphology in Telmatobius. Larval, juvenile, and adult Telmatobius rubigo and T. oxycephalus ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Barrionuevo JS

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：:Sexual dimorphism in the distribution of antennal sense organs is common among adults of the genus Periplaneta. In three out of the four strains of Periplaneta americana examined, adult males had more contact chemoreceptros than females. In the fourth strain of P. americana and in P. australasiae, P. brunnea, P. fulig...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Schafer R,Sanchez TV

更新日期：1976-06-01 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