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Example axes are: The
anteroposterior axis The
cephalocaudal axis The
dorsoventral axis
Examples of axes in
specific animals are
shown below. Anatomical...
- on skin
secretions and
wound exudates. They are
strikingly flattened dorsoventrally, no
doubt as an
adaptation for
slipping between the beavers' hairs....
- The
development of the
nervous system, or
neural development (neurodevelopment),
refers to the
processes that generate, shape, and
reshape the nervous...
- to
three axes of symmetry.
These are the
craniocaudal (head to tail),
dorsoventral (back to front), and
proximodistal (near to far) axes. Many investigations...
- gas
exchange and
secretion of
metabolic compounds. Most
leaves show
dorsoventral anatomy: The
upper (adaxial) and
lower (abaxial)
surfaces have somewhat...
-
lamellae apart. A
muscle opens the
spiracle and
widens the
atrial chamber;
dorsoventral muscles contract to
compress the
pulmonary chamber,
forcing air out,...
- X-ray
fluoroscopy videos of a
female American alligator showing contraction of the
lungs while breathing (
dorsoventral view
above and
lateral view below)...
- to date,
especially the
patterning along the
anteroposterior (AP) and
dorsoventral (DV) axes (See
under morphogenesis). The
embryo undergoes well-characterized...
- seagr****, not to the
color of its carapace,
which is
olive to black. The
dorsoventrally flattened body of C.
mydas is
covered by a large, teardrop-shaped carapace;...
- the VAX2 gene (VAX2
plays an
important role in the
development of the
dorsoventral axis of the eye); Li and ****ociates, however,
found no
consistent or...
