The nature and development of sex attractant specificity in cockroaches of the genus Periplaneta. I. Sexual dimorphism in the distribution of antennal sense organs in five species.

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：:The theory of Kukalova-Peck ('78) is examined and rejected except for the hypothesis of the partially pleural origin of wings. Data suggest that the arthropods ancestral to insects left the water, and that movable precursors of the wings, possibly exopodites, were immobilized and fused with the tergum to form part of ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rasnitsyn AP

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater sponges of the family Spongillidae reproduce sexually through formation of a parenchymula larva. The cytochemical characteristics of parenchymula larval metamorphosis - beginning with the blastula and terminating with the motile escape stage - for the spongillid Eunapius fragilis (Leidy) have been defined u...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Harrison FW,Cowden RR

更新日期：1975-02-01 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：:We describe the complex shapes of myomeres and myosepta in the mackerels and tunas (Scombridae: Teleostei), and we reveal the orientation of two major systems of collagen fibers in myosepta and horizontal septa with respect to points of attachment to skeleton and skin. Our goal is to identify the likely pathways of th...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Westneat MW,Hoese W,Pell CA,Wainwright SA

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross lung morphology is examined in representative species from four genera within the order Lagomorpha (Lepus californicus, Sylvilagus nuttalli, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Ochotona princeps), and compared with a representative rodent out-group (Spermophilus richardonsii). Examination of pulmonary morphology reveals seve...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Simons RS

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:The receptaculum seminis, opening into the female genital tract, is found only in the metastriate ixodid ticks. An endospermatophore that has been inserted into the female genital aperture at copulation is first stored in the receptaculum seminis, where spermiogenesis is completed before the sperm ascend the oviducts....

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Kakuda H,Mōri T,Shiraishi S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, is an obligate suction feeder that preys on benthic invertebrates and fish. Its cranial morphology exhibits a suite of structural and functional modifications that facilitate this mode of prey capture. During suction-feeding, subambient pressure is generated by the ventral expa...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Motta PJ,Hueter RE,Tricas TC,Summers AP,Huber DR,Lowry D,Mara KR,Matott MP,Whitenack LB,Wintzer AP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mate, prey, and predator recognition often depend on the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities including visual, auditory, and/or olfactory inputs. In Crotalinae, the eyes sense visible light while the pit organs detect infrared (IR) radiation. Previous studies indicate that there is significant ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Liu Y,Chen Q,Papenfuss TJ,Lu F,Tang Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：:Comparisons of skull shape between closely related species can provide information on the role that phylogeny and function play in cranial evolution. We used 3D-anatomical landmarks in order to study the skull ontogeny of two closely related species, Lagenorhynchus obscurus and Lagenorhynchus australis, with a total s...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Del Castillo DL,Viglino M,Flores DA,Cappozzo HL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Acipenseriformes (sturgeon and paddlefish) are basal actinopterygians with a highly derived cranial morphology that is characterized by an anatomical independence of the jaws from the neurocranium. We examined the morphological and kinematic basis of prey capture in the Acipenseriform fish Scaphirhynchus albus, the pa...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Carroll AM,Wainwright PC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and crystallography of the internal shell of the pulmonate gastropod slug Limax maximus were studied at the levels of light and scanning electron microscopy, revealing patterns of shell ontogeny and morphogenesis. The calcified portion of the slightly convex ovoid shell is composed of a single palisade l...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Furbish DR,Furbish WJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:Anurans exhibit a particularly wide range of locomotor modes that result in wide variations in their skeletal structure. This article investigates the possible correlation between morphological aspects of the hylid postcranial skeleton and their different locomotor modes and habitat use. To do so, we analyzed 18 morph...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Soliz M,Tulli MJ,Abdala V

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoarchitecture and neuronal morphology of the torus semicircularis in the red-eared turtle, Chrysemys scripta elegans, were examined in Nissl-stained and Golgi-impregnated material. The torus semicircularis begins in the caudodorsal mesencephalon and extends rostrally and laterally to end ventrally to the tectal...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Browner RH,Kennedy MC,Facelle T

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:During suction feeding teleost fish have to start mouth opening prior to other expansion movements of the head such as operculo-suspensorium abduction. The distribution of the input force over the various expansion movements is determined by the position of the hyoid in the expansion apparatus. Based on a three-dimens...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： De Visser J,Barel CDN

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:Mites of the genus Veigaia are common gamasid inhabitants of forest litter. They engage in the peculiar reproductive strategy of podospermy which, along with other morphological and behavioral adaptations, involves modification of the chelicerae of the relatively rare males into gonopods. Each movable digit is provide...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Di Palma A,Alberti G,Nuzzaci G,Krantz GW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lungs of the New Caldeonian gecko Rhacodactylus leachianus were examined by means of gross dissection and light and electron microscopy. This tropical species, which is the largest living gecko, possesses two simple, single-chambered lungs. Right and left lungs are of similar size and shape. The lung volume (27.2 ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Perry SF,Bauer AM,Russell AP,Alston JT,Maloney JE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation describes the morphogenesis of the type I pneumocyte from the neonatal stage to the age of 3 months. Cells lining subpleural air spaces were photographed from electron microscopic serial sections and a three-dimensional representation of each cell was obtained by transferring the contours of the cel...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mercurio AR,Rhodin JA

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of the organ of Bellonci in the marine amphipod Gammarus setosus and the relationship between its sensory cells and concretion are described using light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy, with chemical treatment for cell lysis, calcium chelation, glycogen staining, and lan...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Steele VJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：:Blood vessels in Nereis japonica were studied by electron microscopy. It was found that blood vessels regardless of location were similar in the basic organization of the basal lamina and the usual presence of collagen fibrils on the vessel wall. Differences arise, depending on whether the outside of the basal lamina ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Nakao T

更新日期：1974-10-01 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：:Several muroid rodent species are distributed throughout southern Africa. Some species are reportedly classified as opportunistic omnivorous rodents consuming plant, seed, and insect material. This study aims to provide a detailed morphometric analysis of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of four such omnivorous specie...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Henke Z,Sahd L,Matthee S,Kotzé SH

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00