Study of atresia in the ovary during the annual reproductive cycle and nesting cycle of the pied myna.

abstract：:The Antarctic snailfish Paraliparis devriesi (Liparididae) occupies an epibenthic habitat at a depth of 500-650 m in the subzero waters of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Although lacking a swim bladder, this species is neutrally buoyant through the combined effects of reduced skeletal ossification and expansion of a water...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Eastman JT,Hikida RS,Devries AL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slender blindsnakes (Leptotyphlopidae) are known to use a unique feeding mechanism that involves rapid flexions of the tooth-bearing lower jaw. However, the morphology of the leptotyphlopid jaw apparatus has remained poorly studied due to the extremely small size of these snakes. Here I present a detailed description ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kley NJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：:As part of a study of ulcer formation and healing, regeneration of colonic mucosa in rats was studied following placement of a surgical lesion. Alterations in mucosubstances and connective tissue were examined and their possible significance discussed. The sequence of events in healing was: 1) The mucosa adjacent to t...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Brackett KA,Townsend SF

更新日期：1980-02-01 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：: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：:Previously we showed that type XII collagen (col XII) is highly upregulated in the regenerating newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) forelimb. Here, using immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, we studied the pattern of expression of col XII during early stages of adult newt tail regeneration. The results show th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Wei Y,Tassava RA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkably preserved specimens of Cowralepis mclachlani Ritchie, 2005 (Proc Linn Soc NSW 126:215-259) (Phyllolepida, Placodermi) represent a unique ontogenetic sequence adding to our understanding of anatomy, function, and phylogeny among basal jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes). A systematic review demonstrates that th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Carr RK,Johanson Z,Ritchie A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatogenesis discontinues during both adult reproductive diapause and quiescence in the flightless males of Omorgus freyi. During both types of dormancy, spermatogenesis discontinuity is a dynamic process involving an uninterrupted supply of primary spermatocytes that undergoes partial development and lyses before ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Friedländer M,Scholtz CH

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of a plethodontid salamander, Karsenia koreana, in Korea challenged our understanding of the biogeographic history of the family Plethodontidae, by far the largest family of salamanders, which otherwise is distributed in the New World with a few European species. Molecular studies suggest that Kar...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Buckley D,Wake MH,Wake DB

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work summarizes the observations on 30 species of microdriles belonging to the families Naididae (Rhyacodrilinae, Pristininae, Naidinae, Phallodrilinae, and Tubificinae), Phreodrilidae, Lumbriculidae, and Enchytraeidae using scanning electron microscopy. The lumbricid Eiseniella tetraedra, a megadrile species com...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Caramelo C,Martínez-Ansemil E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skull of neotenic individuals of the Alpine Newt Triturus alpestris from the locality Drakolimni (Greece) is described on the basis of models made from magnified serial frontal sections. In order to recognize features associated with neoteny and paedomorphosis, the results were compared with normal development of ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Roček Z

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The king-of-the-salmon, Trachipterus altivelis (Lampriformes), has an unusual set of oral jaws which allow it the ability to protrude the entire upper jaw, containing the premaxilla and the maxilla bones, to extreme distances. Here, we provide a short description of the cranial anatomy and mechanism of jaw protrusion ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Ferry LA,Paig-Tran EW,Summers AP,Liem KF

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basket stars, that is, Ophiuroidea in Echinodermata, exhibit distinctive morphological characteristics with their complicatedly branched arms that can regenerate immediately after mutilation. Although, in brittle stars, that is, ophiuroids with nonbranched arms, the arm regeneration process following accidental trauma...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Okanishi M,Kohtsuka H,Miura T

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：: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

abstract：:The octavolateralis area of actinopterygian fishes can be subdivided into a dorsal lateralis area composed of first-order lateral line nuclei, and a ventral octavus area composed of nuclei receiving first-order input from the eighth nerve. Three patterns of organization of the lateralis area are recognized in the pres...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： McCormick CA

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：: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：:The brain-microvascular architecture of the newt (Triturus cristatus carnifex) was studied by scanning electron-microscopical examination of microvascular corrosion casts. It is characterized at the leptomeningeal level by a superficial network of single vessels that leave the meningeal sheath to form hairpin-shaped c...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Lazzari M,Ciani F,Franceschini V

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:This study examines the morphology of sporadic congenital microphthalmia in 1-day-old chicks, with particular emphasis on the neural retina. On the basis of the size of the eyeball it is possible to classify microphthalmia into two groups, severe and mild. In severe microphthalmia (less than 5 mm in equatorial diamete...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Ehrlich D,Stuchbery J,Zappia J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of sexual reproduction and embryogenesis was compared in 3 species of Botrylloides: B. simodensis, B. lenis, and B. violaceus. In all species, a testis and an egg (occasionally 2 eggs), the former being anterior to the latter, mature in the mantle on either side of a zooid. The egg is surrounded by 2 follicul...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mukai H,Saito Y,Watanabe H

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:We hypothesized that due to the relative conductivity of the environment, and to maintain sensory function, ampullary organs of marine Neoarius graeffei would differ morphologically from those described previously for estuarine and freshwater conspecifics. Unlike the ampullary systems of N. graeffei from freshwater an...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gauthier AR,Whitehead DL,Bennett MB,Tibbetts IR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The postembryonic development of the turtle carapace was studied in the aquatic Еmys orbicularis and the terrestrial Тestudo graeca. Differences in the structure of the bony shell in aquatic and terrestrial turtles were shown to be associated with varying degrees of development of epidermal derivatives, namely, the th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Cherepanov G

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paired Y-organs of crustaceans control the molting process. In males of C. antennarius, these glands are opalescent, lobulated, epithelioid structures embedded in brown fatty tissue. Cells in the periphery extend processes to the connective tissue capsule, an arrangement that suggests increased surface area for me...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hinsch GW,Spaziani E,Vensel WH

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two free-living marine euplotid ciliates, Pseudodiophrys nigricans and Diophrys japonica, collected from the coastal waters off Qingdao, northern China, were investigated using live observations and protargol impregnation methods. The cortical development of P. nigricans was observed during binary division. Although i...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Fan Y,Warren A,Al-Farraj SA,Chen X,Shao C

更新日期：2013-04-01 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