What's the difference between iguana and sphenodon?
Iguana
Definition:
(n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Control iguanas fed a diet with adequate calcium (2.7%) and phosphours (1.1%) had well mineralized bones with wide cortices and thick metaphyseal trabeculae.
(2) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any other creatures that we don’t routinely eat.
(3) This ultrastructural study was undertaken to investigate the morphological changes which occur in the fast twitch gastrocnemius muscle of the reptile Iguana iguana after nerve section.
(4) The capacity of skeletal muscle to synthesize glycogen from lactate was tested in the iliofibularis muscle of the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis.
(5) This result points towards a period of independent evolution of the reptile lines leading to the Common Iguana on one hand and to the Viper on the other.
(6) In response to systemic injections of hypertonic solutions of NaCl and sucrose, the iguana drank and retained enough water to dilute the injected load to isotonicity irrespective of whether water was offered immediately or after 3 hr, and irrespective of whether the solute was administered I.V.
(7) A unique type of hexagonal eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion was observed within syncytia of infected Terrapene cell cultures incubated at 36 C. In vivo studies revealed no evidence of pathogenicity of iguana virus for suckling mice, embryonated hen's eggs, or several species of reptiles and amphibians.
(8) Iguana virus is ether-sensitive and, as presumptively indicated by studies of inhibition by bromodeoxyuridine, possesses a deoxyribonucleic type of nucleic acid.
(9) Desert iguanas, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, displaying freerunning circadian locomotor rhythms in conditions of constant darkness and temperature received electrolytic lesions to the hypothalamus.
(10) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(11) An appendix presents a method for measuring the microscopic area of intestines with ridges rather than villi, applies this method to desert iguana intestine, and measures area amplification due to villi in wood rat intestine.
(12) The microsomal fraction of iguana liver catalyzed the transformation of 7alpha,12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one to 5alpha-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-triol in good yield.
(13) In a test of the first prediction, omnivorous desert iguanas eating alfalfa pellets (a high-carbohydrate diet) were compared with desert iguanas eating mealworms (a low-carbohydrate, higher-protein diet).
(14) The impact of temperature on the chemical control of respiration in the Mexican black iguana Ctenosaura pectinata was examined by measuring ventilatory responses to graded hypoxia with and without 2.9% inspired CO2 at 25, 30, and 35 degrees C. Black iguanas increased pulmonary ventilation in response to hypoxia by increasing both tidal volume and respiratory frequency.
(15) After water deprivation, the iguana promptly drank slightly more than enough water to restore the body fluids to isotonicity even under conditions of hypervolaemia.
(16) The goals of this study were: (1) to describe the total pattern of projections from the optic tectum of Iguana iguana and Pseudemys scripta; and (2) to describe the contributions of particular lamina of the Iguana's optic tectum to this total pattern.
(17) Contractile properties and innervation patterns were determined in identified single fibers from the iliofibularis muscle of the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis.
(18) The present experiments were designed to trace the central auditory pathways in an extant reptile, the New Worlkd lizard--Iguana iguana, utilizing anterograde axonal degeneration stained by the Fink-Heimer ('67) method and the retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase (LaVail and LaVail, '74).
(19) This study evaluated these three hypotheses by analyzing the activity of the hypaxial muscles of green iguanas (Iguana iguana).
(20) We conclude that, in response to substances which dehydrate cells, the iguana regulates its body osmolality precisely and efficiently provided it is able to do so by drinking.
Sphenodon
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hatteria.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report on the presence of cerebrospinal fluid contacting neurons (CSFCN) inside the regenerating caudal spinal cord of adult specimens of the tuatara Sphenodon punctatus is given.
(2) The lens of the parietal eye of Calotes appears at a comparatively later state of development than in Sphenodon and Lacerta.
(3) The granular leucocytes of an active, mature female tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus (Gray) were examined in the electron microscope.
(4) Other lizard species and Sphenodon punctatus possess variably developed hyaline cartilaginous tubes.
(5) Plasma concentrations of estradiol, progesterone, prostaglandin (PG) E2 and PGF were measured during three stages of the natural nesting cycle of the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), a rare New Zealand reptile.
(6) In some features, such as the vertical connective tissue septa, agamids share primitive features with Sphenodon.
(7) The major hemoglobin component Hb A of the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, a relict of the rhynochocephalian reptiles that lived 200 million years ago, was investigated in the light of the apparent contradiction inherent in an effect of organic phosphate cofactors on the oxygen affinity of hemoglobins exhibiting hyperbolic oxygen equilibrium curves.
(8) Along with the kiwis (Apteryx), tuatara (Sphenodon) and leiopelmatid frogs, the now rare lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata), one of only two species in the endemic family Mystacinidae, has long been viewed as one of New Zealand's archaic, mystery vertebrates, and has presented taxonomists with a major puzzle since its first description in 1843 (ref.
(9) The erythrocytes of Sphenodon punctatus (Gray) are nucleated, ellipsoidal and flattened, and contain 55--65 microtubules in their marginal band.
(10) Opposite to those of the Lacertids (100), the index of encephalization in Tuatara has a low value (70.2), but locates Sphenodon in the neighbourhood of lizards of the family Cordylidae (Cordylus, Zonosaurus).
(11) The major kinetic findings show that (i) in these haemoglobins the T state is retained to a higher level of ligation than that commonly found in mammals, (ii) the rate of conversion from the R to the T state (k0RT) is some three orders of magnitude lower in the Sphenodon haemoglobins than in mammalian systems.
(12) The blood of the Sphenodon (Sphenodon punctatus) has been fractionated into two major and one minor haemoglobin components by ion-exchange chromatography.
(13) Obvious relations between the unusual lung structure and the phylogenetic age of the Sphenodon were sought, with the conclusion that the Sphenodon cannot be included in the Reptilian oders since its physical structure forms a class by itself.
(14) The throat musculature of Sphenodon is described and figured, and compared with that of lizards.
(15) In many features of its throat musculature, Sphenodon may well represent a primitive lepidosaurian pattern, comparable to some extent to the chelonian structure of throat musculature.
(16) The possible existence of daily cycles in plasma concentrations of sex steroids was examined in wild male and female tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).
(17) Sphenodon is the sole representative of the "beakhead" reptiles which were widely distributed during the Triassic period before the spectacular rise of dinosaurs.
(18) The general plan of the development of the organ in Calotes versicolor in no way differs from that of Sphenodon and Lacerta.
(19) The morphological features of Sphenodon are remarkably conservative and differ little from reptiles living 200 million years ago.
(20) The nocturnal, cold temperature-adapted tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) had a melatonin rhythm of much lower amplitude than did the diurnal desert-adapted sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa).