Ovary of the seahorse, Hippocampus erectus.

abstract：:Descriptions are provided of the histology and ultrastructure of the male internal reproductive tracts from three species of Camponotus, representing three subgenera. This study is the first to provide ultrastructural information on the testes (including spermatogenesis and spermiogenesis), seminal vesicles, and acces...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wheeler DE,Krutzsch PH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prowfish, Zaprora silenus, is the sole member of the family Zaproridae. It is a large, relatively elongate species with a robust head and body, and it feeds primarily on jellyfishes. Although the larvae and juveniles are pelagic, the adults are demersal, and the species is widely distributed from Southern Californ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hilton EJ,Stevenson DE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The different elements of the caudal skeleton of the South American catfish genera Nematogenys (Nematogenyinae) and Trichomycterus, Hatcheria, and Bullockia (Pygidiinae) (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) show Ontogenetic transformation of the second ural centrum in Trichomycteridae separates the subfamilies Nematogenyi...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Arratia G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of diet-induced phenotypic differences in numbers of sensilla on the antennae of the grasshopper Schistocerca americana was studied using the exuviae produced at each molt. This made it possible to follow changes within an individual insect. In the first instar, insects had similar numbers of four sens...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Chapman RF

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feline anterior sartorius is a long strap-like muscle composed of short muscle fibers. Nerve branches that enter this muscle contain the axons of motor units whose constituent muscle fibers are distributed asymmetrically within the muscle. In the present study, twitch and tetanic isometric contractions were evoked...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Scott SH,Thomson DB,Richmond FJ,Loeb GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:The posterior half of the channel catfish intestine has a similar histological organization to that of other teleost fishes. This region is organized into a muscosa, a submucosa, a double layered muscularis and a serosa. A "stratum compactum" of dense connective tissue was confirmed for the submucosa. In its histology...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Krementz AB,Chapman GB

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological and histological analyses of Mabuya mabouya embryos at different developmental stages showed an extraembryonic membrane sequence as follows: a bilaminar omphalopleure and progressive mesodermal expansion around the whole yolk sac at gastrula stages; mesodermal split and formation of an exocoelom in the ent...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Jerez A,Ramírez-Pinilla MP

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:Sceloporus aeneus exhibits reproductive bimodality. That is, one taxon (Sceloporus aeneus bicanthalis) is viviparous whereas the other (Sceloporus aeneus aeneus) is oviparous. Morphological differences in luteal and oviductal structure were examined. Oviparous and viviparous females have distinct corpora lutea that fo...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Guillette LJ Jr,Jones RE

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:Light and electron microscopic examination demonstrated two types of non-endocrine agranular cells, cavity boundary cells and stellate cells, in the adenohypophysis of the South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa. The cavity boundary cells line the hypophyseal cleft and diverticulum and display few microvilli, oc...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Chiba A,Oka S,Honma Y,Ishiyama M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homology is resemblance caused by a continuity of information. In biology it is a unified developmental phenomenon. Homologies among and within individuals intergrade in several ways, so historical homology cannot be separated sharply from repetitive homology. Nevertheless, the consequences of historical and repetitiv...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Van Valen LM

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:Serial sections were used to map the ventrally positioned neurons of the anterior nerve cord of a 12.5-day amphioxus larva from the infundibular region to the end of somite 2. Synaptic patterns reveal five categories of descending pathways, four of which are associated with the ventral compartment (VC) motoneurons res...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lacalli TC,Kelly SJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 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 purpose of this study was to find out whether the microstructure of the highly permeable skin of heat-acclimated pigeons allowing increased evaporative cooling differs from the skin of pigeons in the non-acclimated or cold-acclimated state. In addition, the correlation between epidermal morphology and cutaneous wa...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Peltonen L,Arieli Y,Pyörnilä A,Marder J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron micrographs show the branchial epithelium of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis to be composed of three kinds of cells: ciliated, parietal, and "dark." Absorptive processes of phagocytosis appear in ciliated and parietal cells; moreover, apocrine-like secretion is evident exclusively in the parietal...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Pestarino M,Fiala-Medioni A,Ravera F

更新日期：1988-09-01 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 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：: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：: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：:Pheromone systems from seven species of noctuid are examined. Much of the structure of scales from the wings and/or the abdomen is interpreted as a modification for secretion or release of a pheromone. Scales with an extremely complex surface provide a large evaporation surface, while those connected to secretory cell...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Clearwater JR

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrastructural study of the ovary of the sessible jellyfish, Haliclystus octoradiatus, indicates that it is fundamentally different from that of other scyphozoans and is the most structurally complex within the class. Oocytes develop within a series of spherical, sac-like ovarian follicles consisting of an enlarge...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Eckelbarger KJ,Larson RJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allografts of skin were observed in Chelydra serpentina. The response to these grafts was modified by a previous transplantation of a limb bud at an early embryonic stage. When the same donor was used for all transplants, the first skin graft was accepted by the host. A second skin graft, however, was rejected at abou...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Yntema CL

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy of spermatogenesis in the Hawaiian red lobster, Enoplometopus occidentalis (Randall), has revealed unusual activity within membranous organelles. Mitochondria-like bodies (MLB-1) seen first in spermatogonia appear in primary spermatocytes to swell and fuse as the cytoplasm develops annulate lamella...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Haley SR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer retinae of adults of 13 atherinomorph species, representing nine different families, were examined by both light and electron microscopy. The retinae were investigated with respect to photoreceptor types, cone densities, and cone patterns. All data were composed to eye maps. This procedure allows an interspe...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Reckel F,Melzer RR

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Sensory epithelia of the oral tube, a fungiform body anterior to the tentacles and of the terminal knob of tentacles, were studied in Ovatella myosotis by electron microscopy. All three epithelia consist of columnar support cells, sensory cells, and, except in the oral tube, numerous goblet cells. The epithelia differ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wondrak G

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

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