Detection of sugar residues in lizard tooth germs (Liolaemus gravenhorsti) using lectin histochemistry.

abstract：:The structures and distribution of encapsulated muscle receptors were examined in serial transverse sections of flexor carpi radialis in the adult cat. Four types of receptors (muscle spindles, Golgi tendon organs, paciniform, and Pacinian corpuscles) were identified. Their structures resembled those encountered in ot...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Richmond FJ,Stuart DG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface of a mature, pelagic C-O sole egg is composed of polygonal chambers having four to eight sides, most of which are hexagonally shaped. This honeycomb pattern initially appears on primary oocytes as a thin layer of compact, electron-dense material. Discrete thickenings begin to develop on the envelope of per...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Stehr CM,Hawkes JW

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ovarian follicles of Ctenosaura pectinata exhibit a clear seasonal cycle in morphology. Early in development, each oocyte is surrounded by a granulosa composed of a single layer of cuboidal or squamous cells and thin thecal layers. As folliculogenesis progresses, the granulosa becomes multilayered and composed of ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Uribe MDCA,B GLP,Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chondrocranium is a cartilaginous structure that forms around and protects the brain and sensory organs of the head. Through ontogeny, this skeletal structure may become more elaborate, remodeled and reabsorbed, and/or ossified. Though considerable attention has been given to the formation of the chondrocranium an...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Daniel J P,Christopher A S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen species of leiognathid fishes (Perciformes, Leiognathidae) from the Philippine Islands, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, and Palau were examined for accessory secondary sexual dimorphism. Thirteen species exhibit either external dimorphism (a clear patch of skin on the flanks of males, a large clear patch of skin ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： McFall-Ngai MJ,Dunlap PV

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:Oviductal structure is described in New Zealand's common gecko, Hoplodactylus maculatus, over four reproductive stages (early/mid-vitellogenesis, late vitellogenesis, early pregnancy, late pregnancy), using light, scanning electron, and transmission electron microscopy. Five regions of the oviduct are recognized: infu...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Girling JE,Cree A,Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies in the genus Poecilia have focused on reproductive and genetic characteristics of Poecilia formosa, the Amazon molly, and its sympatric species P. latipinna and P. mexicana. The research literature of Poecilia dentition has been limited to general tooth morphology. Essentially absent are comparative analy...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lewis SR,Rasch EM,Hossler FE,Kalbfleisch JH,Monaco PJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：: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 hypotheses of relationships within Lari (gulls) are highly unstable, and depend on whether morphological or molecular data are examined. Developmental sequence data are thought to contain phylogenetic information, but have never been applied to the problem of avian systematics. In this article, we describe the oss...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Maxwell EE,Harrison LB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about specific proteins involved in keratinization of the epidermis of snakes. The presence of histidine-rich molecules, sulfur, keratins, loricrin, transglutaminase, and isopeptide-bonds have been studied by ultrastructural autoradiography, X-ray microanalysis, and immunohistochemistry in the epidermi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Alibardi L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescent organs have evolved many times within teleost fishes and exhibit a wide range of complexity and anatomical derivation. Although some bioluminescent organs have been studied in detail, the morphology of the bacterial light organs in glowbellies (Acropoma) is largely unknown. This study describes the anat...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Ghedotti MJ,Gruber JN,Barton RW,Davis MP,Smith WL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reduction in free ribosomes and increases in rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complexes in follicle cells during oogenesis suggest their involvement in supplying precursor material for synthesis of the vitelline and chorionic membranes of the ichneumonid parasitoid Campoletis sonorensis. The inner region of the...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Norton WN,Vinson SB

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural observations and glyoxilic acid-induced fluorescence of catecholamines indicate that tracts of axons lie at the base of the ciliary bands and run throughout their length in bipinnaria and brachiolaria larvae of Pisaster ochraceus. Two types of nerve cells occur at regular intervals within the ciliary b...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Burke RD

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Canis and Ursus the largest proportion of attachments of muscles of the shoulder and brachium on the scapula and humerus is direct; fewer attachments are aponeurotic or tendinous. In both genera most attachments can be associated with superficial osteological features (scars or delimitable surfaces); attachments th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Bryant HN,Seymour KL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oribatida are one of the main groups of Acari comprising mostly important decomposers in soils. Most species are particle feeders, an exceptional mode of nutrition in Arachnida. Hence, their feeding organs, the gnathosoma, are of special functional interest. We studied nearly all components using scanning and transmis...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Alberti G,Heethoff M,Norton RA,Schmelzle S,Seniczak A,Seniczak S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the long starvation period (November to June) of the lizard (Varanus exanthematicus), pancreatic B cells undergo profound modification. The degeneration of beta granules observed in electron microscopy appears correlated with the diminution of the immunoreactive insulin-like content of the pancreas. The analogy...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Godet R,Mattei X,Dupé-Godet M

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of oocyte development and the early differentiation of the germ layers in monotremes stems largely from two articles by J. P. Hill and T. Thomson Flynn. The completeness of their account was due to the large series of echidna ovaries and eggs collected on Tasmania by Flynn, an Australian biologist of whom a ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Carter AM

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To illustrate vascular modification accompanying transition from aquatic to amphibious life in gobies, we investigated the respiratory vasculatures of the gills and the bucco-opercular cavities in one of the most terrestrially-adapted mudskippers, Periophthalmodon schlosseri, using the corrosion casting technique. The...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gonzales TT,Katoh M,Ghaffar MA,Ishimatsu A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventral bars, cartilaginous projections from the ventral aspect of the synsacrum that contact and form a joint with the ilium, were found in all normal chick embryos of age E9 and older. Bars were absent in a number of embryos which had been paralyzed from age E4 by the use of the acetylcholine receptor blocker alpha-...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Laing NG

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear and cytoplasmic volume changes as well as the elimination of residual spermatid cytoplasm were investigated in the red-ear turtle (Pseudemys scripta) and the rooster (Gallus domesticus). Nuclei of newly formed spermatids which were originally centrally located became eccentrically located within the cell in bo...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Sprando RL,Russell LD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual fish development differs from that of other teleosts because a phase of blastomere dispersion-reaggregation spatially and temporally separates epiboly from embryogenesis. The fate of dispersed blastomeres was assessed in diblastodermic eggs of the annual fishes Cynolebias whitei and C. nigripinnis. In typical t...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Carter CA,Wourms JP

更新日期：1993-03-01 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 ultrastructure of five epithelial cellular types is described. (1) Absorptive-storing cells possess a striated border and accumulate lipids and glycogen. They also contain an apical multivesicular complex and numerous membrane-bound PAS-positive granules of unknown significance. (2) Zymogenic cells contain numerou...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Martinez A,Villaro AC,Sesma P

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:The oral dentition and type and number of taste buds (TB) on the lips and in the oropharyngeal cavity were compared by means of SEM in 11 species of cardinal fishes (Apogonidae) belonging to five genera. The occurrence of a dense cover of skin papillae on the lips of some species (e.g., Apogon frenatus), as well as di...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fishelson L,Delarea Y,Zverdling A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The form of amniote claws has been extensively investigated, often with inferences about ecological association being drawn from studies of their geometry. Various methods have been used to quantify differences in the geometry of claws, but rarely have the underlying assumptions of such methods been addressed. Here, w...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Tinius A,Patrick Russell A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several flatfish species exhibit the unusual feature of bilateral asymmetry in prey capture kinematics. One species, Pleuronichthys verticalis, produces lateral flexion of the jaws during prey capture. This raises two questions: 1) How are asymmetrical movements generated, and 2) How could this unusual jaw mechanism h...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gibb AC

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, the phylum Cycliophora comprises only one described extant species of acoelomate marine invertebrates, Symbion pandora. Adult specimens live commensally on the mouthparts of the Norwegian lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. Its complicated life cycle includes an asexually produced Pandora larva and a sexually produ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wanninger A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00