What's the difference between fossorial and fossorious?
Fossorial
Definition:
(a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that the urine of the species that show a higher degree of fossoriality, the mole rat and the hamster, contain high values of calcium and magnesium bicarbonates when compared with the white rat.
(2) These data indicate that adult acute ventilatory responsiveness to CO2 in birds may be in part determined by CO2 exposure during early development and may help explain the observation that fossorial and semifossorial species of birds and mammals, that naturally encounter high CO2 conditions in their burrows, have a blunted hypercapnic ventilatory response.
(3) Two kinds of experiments should be undertaken: (a) physiologic-acoustic experiments in a fossorial to determine the effect of the recesses and (b) acoustic experiments varying the dimensions and positions of a tube and a porus leading into a resonator.
(4) In order to assess the mechanical properties of xenarthrous vertebrae, and to evaluate the role of xenarthrae as fossorial adaptations, in vitro bending tests were performed on posterior thoracic and lumbar vertebral segments excised from specimens of the armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus and the opossum Didelphis virginiana, the latter being used to represent the primitive mammalian condition.
(5) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
(6) Females of two parapatric chromosomal forms (2n = 52 and 2n =58) of the fossorial mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi, in Israel, were tested for mate selection between two alternative, a homo- and a heterochromosomal, males.
(7) This study involves old and new material of 184 small mammalian species both insectivores and rodents; 111 living aboveground and 73 species living partly (fossorial, N = 28) or totally (subterranean, N = 45) underground.
(8) The mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi is a fossorial rodent.
(9) The morphology of the external and the middle ear (auditory ossicles) in Chlamyphorus truncatus is influenced by its fossorial life.
(10) The high oxygen capacity and oxygen affinity and the low Bohr factor may have adaptive significance to this fossorial amphibian.
(11) Results show that these four species exhibit higher levels of genetic variability (He = 0.11-0.17) than those reported for most other fossorial rodents.
(12) To examine the adaptations to low O2 and high CO2 among fossorial and nonfossorial rodents, hematological parameters were determined for laboratory rats, the valley pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) from 250 m, and the mountain pocket gopher (T. umbrinus melanotis) from 3150 m. Hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, and O2 capacity were higher in pocket gophers than in rats.
(13) These three species represent different degrees of fossoriality.
(14) The PiO2 threshold for the ventilatory response to hypoxia and position of the ventilatory response curve in the ground squirrel were closer to the semifossorial echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) than the completely fossorial mole rate (Spalax ehrenbergi); both the ground squirrel and echidna had a higher PiO2 threshold than the mole rat.
(15) The respiratory sensitivity to inspired CO2 of pocket mice was, despite their being semi-fossorial, typical of other mammals.
(16) Male Syrian hamsters were housed in simulated burrows in order to investigate (a) how these nocturnal, fossorial rodents entrain to the prevailing light:dark cycle in this semi-natural habitat and (b) the response of the reproductive system to environmental illumination.
(17) The oxygen capacity values of Ctenomys blood are similar to those of other fossorial mammals.
(18) Comparisons with functional data from other digging mammals indicate that the modified mechanical properties of the Dasypus column are consistent with an interpretation of xenarthrae as digging adaptations and lend support to the idea that the order Xenarthra represents an early offshoot of placental mammals specialized for fossoriality.
(19) Some remarks are made on the digging techniques in the Aardvark and other fossorial mammals.
(20) Four types were recognized, in order of increasing VO2: (a) fossorial; (b) sit-and-wait (including A. stellio); (c) cruising, and (d) widely foraging.
Fossorious
Definition:
(a.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that the urine of the species that show a higher degree of fossoriality, the mole rat and the hamster, contain high values of calcium and magnesium bicarbonates when compared with the white rat.
(2) These data indicate that adult acute ventilatory responsiveness to CO2 in birds may be in part determined by CO2 exposure during early development and may help explain the observation that fossorial and semifossorial species of birds and mammals, that naturally encounter high CO2 conditions in their burrows, have a blunted hypercapnic ventilatory response.
(3) Two kinds of experiments should be undertaken: (a) physiologic-acoustic experiments in a fossorial to determine the effect of the recesses and (b) acoustic experiments varying the dimensions and positions of a tube and a porus leading into a resonator.
(4) In order to assess the mechanical properties of xenarthrous vertebrae, and to evaluate the role of xenarthrae as fossorial adaptations, in vitro bending tests were performed on posterior thoracic and lumbar vertebral segments excised from specimens of the armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus and the opossum Didelphis virginiana, the latter being used to represent the primitive mammalian condition.
(5) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
(6) Females of two parapatric chromosomal forms (2n = 52 and 2n =58) of the fossorial mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi, in Israel, were tested for mate selection between two alternative, a homo- and a heterochromosomal, males.
(7) This study involves old and new material of 184 small mammalian species both insectivores and rodents; 111 living aboveground and 73 species living partly (fossorial, N = 28) or totally (subterranean, N = 45) underground.
(8) The mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi is a fossorial rodent.
(9) The morphology of the external and the middle ear (auditory ossicles) in Chlamyphorus truncatus is influenced by its fossorial life.
(10) The high oxygen capacity and oxygen affinity and the low Bohr factor may have adaptive significance to this fossorial amphibian.
(11) Results show that these four species exhibit higher levels of genetic variability (He = 0.11-0.17) than those reported for most other fossorial rodents.
(12) To examine the adaptations to low O2 and high CO2 among fossorial and nonfossorial rodents, hematological parameters were determined for laboratory rats, the valley pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) from 250 m, and the mountain pocket gopher (T. umbrinus melanotis) from 3150 m. Hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, and O2 capacity were higher in pocket gophers than in rats.
(13) These three species represent different degrees of fossoriality.
(14) The PiO2 threshold for the ventilatory response to hypoxia and position of the ventilatory response curve in the ground squirrel were closer to the semifossorial echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) than the completely fossorial mole rate (Spalax ehrenbergi); both the ground squirrel and echidna had a higher PiO2 threshold than the mole rat.
(15) The respiratory sensitivity to inspired CO2 of pocket mice was, despite their being semi-fossorial, typical of other mammals.
(16) Male Syrian hamsters were housed in simulated burrows in order to investigate (a) how these nocturnal, fossorial rodents entrain to the prevailing light:dark cycle in this semi-natural habitat and (b) the response of the reproductive system to environmental illumination.
(17) The oxygen capacity values of Ctenomys blood are similar to those of other fossorial mammals.
(18) Comparisons with functional data from other digging mammals indicate that the modified mechanical properties of the Dasypus column are consistent with an interpretation of xenarthrae as digging adaptations and lend support to the idea that the order Xenarthra represents an early offshoot of placental mammals specialized for fossoriality.
(19) Some remarks are made on the digging techniques in the Aardvark and other fossorial mammals.
(20) Four types were recognized, in order of increasing VO2: (a) fossorial; (b) sit-and-wait (including A. stellio); (c) cruising, and (d) widely foraging.