(n.) The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herpetology is a rapidly growing interest in this country, reptiles being kept both for research purposes and as pets.
(2) He became known as the "Adder King", occasionally came to work with a snake in his sleeve and would go on to publish seven highly regarded books on herpetology (and prove, inter alia, that snakes are not susceptible to music).
(3) His many outstanding contributions to the fields of immunology, public health, toxinology and herpetology required not only a very high level of observational, deductive and practical ability but also an unswerving vision and sense of duty; this was allied to great administrative skill and exceptional energy.
Reptilia
Definition:
(n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stomach of Anolis carolinensis (Reptilia: Iguanidae) has four histologically and histochemically distinct regions.
(2) Studies were conducted to explore vitamin A transport in the non-mammalian vertebrates, especially Pisces, Amphibia, and Reptilia, and to isolate and partially characterize piscine retinol-binding protein.
(3) Ectoplasmic specializations (ES) facing spermatids were studied in species representative of four classes of non-mammalian vertebrates (Pisces--bluegill; Amphibia--bullfrog; Reptilia--red eared turtle; Aves--domestic chicken).
(4) We therefore propose that: liver pigment cells of Amphibia and Reptilia should be classified as "Extra Cutaneous Pigment Cells from Histocytic Origin".
(5) Reptilia are discussed as useful experimental animals for studying the kindling phenomenon.
(6) Immunocytochemical and cytofluorimetric studies were performed in several species of different classes (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia and Aves), in order to ascertain the presence of ACTH-like molecules in blood cells.
(7) Owing to interest in the original function and evolution of cytochrome P-450 this enzyme system was studied in four species each at different levels on the phylogenetic tree, representing Agnatha, Selachi, Teleostei, and Reptilia.
(8) The microtubular density was assessed with the electron microscope in 3 microns myelinated fibers, myelin excluded, of 11 species from the following classes: Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia.
(9) Plasma membranes were isolated from the livers of various animal species representing the four vertebrate classes: Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia.
(10) The thymus gland of the adult viviparous lizard, Chalcides ocellatus (Reptilia, Sauria, Scincidae) undergoes conspicuous morphological changes in relation to gestational period.
(11) There were recorded 92 species of the naturally infected by the erysipeloid causative agent invertebrate inhabitants of the sea, fish, amphibia, reptilia, birds, mammals and ectoparasites of the warm-blooded animals.
(12) But no azo-dye deposit can be seen on the microvilli in the jejunum of amphibia and fishes, nor the ileum of reptilia, amphibia and fishes.
(13) The tuatara is the only surviving member of the ancient Sub-Order Rhynchocephalia, and it seems likely that testosterone functions as a male sex hormone in this species, as it does in other members of the Class Reptilia.
(14) A battery of seven lectins and several conventional mucin histochemical techniques were used to identify the epithelial mucins of the gallbladder of ten species: man, rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, mammalia), hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, mammalia), chicken (Gallus gallus, bird), sparrow (Passer domesticus, bird), moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica, reptilia), ladder snake (Elaphe scalaris, reptilia), lake frog (Rana perezi, amphibia), natterjack toad (Bufo calamita, amphibia) and gilthead sea bream (Sparus auratus, fish).
(15) n. (Heterakoidea, Heterakidae), parasite of the gut of the lizard Podarcis dugesii Milne-Edwards, 1829 (Reptilia, Lacertidae) from Madeira Island is described.
(16) Three types of cell degeneration were observed at early embryonic stages of the development of cerebellar cortex of Gallotia galloti (Reptilia: Lacertidae).
(17) The hepatic beta-adrenergic receptor was found to be expressed in all animals studied; the hepatic alpha 1-adrenergic receptor was absent in Amphibia and Reptilia, co-expressed with the beta receptor in Aves, and dominant over the beta receptor in Mammalia.
(18) For the first time in reptilia peripolar cells are found, they are situated on the basal membrane of the external part of the glomerular capsule near the vascular pole of the renal corpuscle.
(19) Using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, we demonstrated that lymphocytes containing ACTH-like molecules are first detectable in anuran amphibia, and are present in lymphocytes of reptilia and aves.
(20) The finding in eel brain of chicken GnRH II, which has previously been described in species of Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Osteichthyes, and Chondrichthyes, supports our hypothesis that this widespread structural variant may represent an early evolved and conserved form of GnRH.