abstract：:During ontogeny, the apical and basal components of dicamptodontid teeth exhibit three major developmental stages: nonpedicellate, subpedicellate, and pedicellate. Premetamorphic larvae tend to have nonpedicellate teeth, incompletely or recently metamorphosed individuals tend to have subpedicellate teeth, and fully tr...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Beneski JT Jr,Larsen JH Jr

更新日期：1989-02-01 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 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：: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：:Larval salivary gland cells of seven Drosophila species from the melanogaster group were studied during the early third-instar period. Similar cytoplasmic organization was seen in both the distal and proximal parts of the gland. The cytoplasm contained a large number of free ribosomes, but only a few rough endoplasmic...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Thomopoulos GN

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic studies show that the capsule of the hip joint in the vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus) is preponderantly collagenous. Among the collagen fiber bundles are varying quantities of elastic fibers that demonstrate a definite, differential regional distribution. The highest concentration of ela...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Walji AH

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：: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：:Neurosecretory (Nsy) cells within the cerebral ganglion of Lumbricus terrestris were classified ultrastructurally. The Nsy cells within the subesophageal ganglion, nerve cord ganglion, and the peripheral nervous system were also examined. A comparative survey of Nsy cells of four other species of oligochaetes, Eisenia...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Al-Yousuf S

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light microscopic analysis of serial sections of the subcommissural organ (SCO) of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) shows that the form of the groove-like (in cross section) organ varies over its total length. Its rostral origin is a tunnel-like structure anterior to the orifice of the hollow pineal stalk. The ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Schäfer H,Blüm V

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In uloborid spiders, eye loss is accompanied by increased visual angles, optical material investment, and potential visual acuity of the retained eyes. Relative to carapace volume, the six-eyed Hyptiotes cavatus and two four-eyed Miagrammopes species have greater retinal hemisphere areas and lens volumes than do the e...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Opell BD

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gross and histological examination of all extant families of turtles revealed that the buccopharyngeal mucosa is morphologically highly varied. The tongues of aquatic species have small lingual papillae or lack them entirely, while terrestrial species have tongues with numerous glandular papillae. The pharynx and the ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Winokur RM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematocytes containing microbasic mastigophores are intimately associated with accessory cells in the epidermis of Chironex fleckeri. Large microbasic mastigophores may be surrounded by seven to nine such cells. Each accessory cell possesses an apical portion containing secretory droplets and a basal portion which car...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rifkin JF,Endean R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endorgans of the inner ear of the gar were examined using transmission and scanning electron microscopy as well as nerve staining. The ultrastructure of the sensory hair cells and supporting cells of the gar ear are similar to cells in other bony fishes, whereas there are significant differences between the gar an...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Mathiesen C,Popper AN

更新日期：1987-11-01 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：:The Puerto Rican tree frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui, has internal fertilization and direct development on land. In light of these reproductive adaptations, the events of fertilization and early development were studied. Cytological examination of just-fertilized eggs showed that sperm entry is restricted to about 10% ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Elinson RP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and electron microscopy reveal that simple receptor cells in the jaw epithelium of sea urchin pedicellariae are connected by nerve tracts to the neuropile that coordinates jaw movements. The muscles responsible for jaw opening and closure and for flexion of the stem are all innervated in this neuropile. At least...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Peters BH,Campbell AC

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonads from three hermaphrodite species of different invertebrate phyla were studied at the ultastructure level. In the flatworm Dugesia biblica, male germ cells in different stages of development lay in the lumen of testicular follicles surrounded by overlapping parietal cells. The intercellular space formed by c...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： O'Donovan P,Abraham M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septate junctions develop initially just basad from apical junctional complexes at the apical ends of regenerating gastrodermal cells. The first morphological indication of differentiation of the junction is the appearance of gentle undulations of the plasma membranes of apposing cells. Subsequently dense dots develop...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hori I

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression of ovarian follicular development in the Northern Alligator Lizard has been documented ultrastructurally and by enumeration of cells, with a focus on changes in the granulosa component of the follicle. The pattern of cellular differentiation of the granulosa entails, as in other lizards, the transforma...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Klosterman LL

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate and possible roles of the cytoskeleton in the process of conjugation in the hyptrich ciliate Euplotes aediculatus were investigated. Following the coalescence of the plasma membranes of the conjugant cells, a fusion zone or bridge of cytoplasm contributed by both partners is constructed. The sub-alveolar micr...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Geyer JJ,Kloetzel JA

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differences in angulation and length observed for the fibers of anatomical muscles may reflect two distinct mechanical requirements: arrangement for pinnation, reflecting an increase in physiological cross-section and arrangement for equivalent placement of sarcomeres, possibly associated with coordination. The ob...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gans C,de Vree F

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interradicular periodontal ligament of mandibular molars contains an apparently unique dilated vessel straddling the interradicular alveolar bone. This structure is designated a venous ampulla. The vessel possesses a luminal length and width of approximately 200 X 100 microns, respectively. Ultrastructurally, the ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Sims MR

更新日期：1987-03-01 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：:Atretic follicles of the ovary of the Indian pied myna (Sturnus contra contra) were studied in birds collected each month throughout the year. Histological examination included histochemical techniques for 3β-hydroxy-steroid dehydrogenase (3β-HSDH) and for lipids. Atretic follicles were mainly of two types: nonburstin...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gupta SK,Maiti BR

更新日期：1986-12-01 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 allometric relations of diameter and length of humerus, ulna, femur, and tibia of 108 specimens, from 63 different breeds of dogs and 12 specimens of wolves, were calculated by means of model II of regression or major axis method. Only for the tibia were the values of wolves included in the cluster formed for dog ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Casinos A,Bou J,Castiella MJ,Viladiu C

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from adult birds, crocodilians, Sphenodon, squamates, turtles, and from the chick embryo are compared to test conflicting hypotheses of homology of the deep dorsal thigh muscles of birds and other reptiles. This comparison suggests that: (1) avian Mm. iliofemoralis externus and iliotrochantericus caudalis (herein...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Rowe T

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three regions of the byssus of the marine mussel Mytilus edulis L. are distinct in structural organization at the macroscopic and microscopic level and in amino acid composition. The threads that emanate from the stem at the base of the foot are divided into two regions. The proximal, elastic region has a crimped, den...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Benedict CV,Waite JH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface areas of the tracheal and cuticular systems of Peripatus acacioi individuals of different body weights were determined by morphometric analysis. The results demonstrate that both surfaces increase with body weight, although the observed increase in the surface area of the tracheal system appears to be at a...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Bicudo JEPW

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work is concerned with the ultrastructural organization and some histochemical features of the vacuolar cells of the demosponge Oscarella lobularis. Vacuolar cells are characterized by large clear vacuoles containing an aqueous fluid. They are commonly found in the mesohyl of this sponge and tend to constitute a ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gaino E,Burlando B,Buffa P

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of four genera of arvicolid rodents (Clethrionomys, Eothenomys, Alticola, and Synaptomys) presents the first complete description of limb myology for any member of this recently evolved, highly successful family. The study also identifies four forelimb and four hind-limb muscles that exhibit charac...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Stein BR

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five types of hemocytes, prohemocytes, typical plasmatocytes, coagulocytes, spherule cells, and oenocytoides, have been defined in the last larval instar of Heliothis armigera on the basis of ultrastructural microscopy, smears, and optical phase-contrast microscopy. Modifications in typical plasmatocytes and coagulocy...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Essawy M,Maleville A,Brehélin M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The silk production systems of several specimens representing at least three species of the mygalomorph genus Euagrus were examined by dissection and by a variety of absorption and fluorescent histochemical techniques. The intrageneric variation is primarily restricted to gland number, with larger numbers of glands in...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Palmer JM

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), the pronephros begins to form at the four-somite stage. It is initially continuous with the posterior-lateral region of somite 2 and the lateral margin of somites 3 and 4. By the seven-somite stage, the pronephros has become compacted, and the cells are now morphologically...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Gillespie LL,Armstrong JB

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antennal circulatory organ of Periplaneta americana and Blaberus craniifer was investigated by light and electron microscopy. This organ consists of two pulsatile ampullae located near the antennal base which are interconnected by a large transverse muscle and associated blood vessels which run into the antennae. ...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Pass G

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ovarian follicle of Drosophila consists of an oocyte, 15 nurse cells, and hundreds of follicular epithelial cells. A freeze-fracture analysis of the surfaces between glutaraldehyde-fixed ovarian cells showed that all three cell types were interconnected by gap junctions. This is the first report of gap junctions be...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Giorgi F,Postlethwait JH

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：:The location and arrangement of the pancreatic endocrine tissue in larval and adult Geotria australis (Geotriidae) differ markedly from those exhibited by the comparable stages of Northern Hemisphere lampreys (Petromyzontidae). In larval Geotria australis, the main zones of islet proliferation are located laterally be...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Hilliard RW,Epple A,Potter IC

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the arterial arches of Bipes, the only amphisbaenian with forelimbs, resolves the problem of the interpretation of the structure of the arterial arches in other forms of this group of squamate reptiles. In Bipes, as in turtles, the subclavian and common carotid arteries originate from a brachiocephalic tr...

journal_title：Journal of morphology

authors： Renous D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00