(1) The iguanids, Sceloporus magister and S. occidentalis, have typical "iguanid type" papillae with central short-ciliated unidirectional hair cell segments and apical and basal long-ciliated bidirectional hair cell segments.
(2) Within the Iguania, the two Agamids are immunologically more closely related to the Chamaeleon than to the two Iguanids.
(3) The agamid, Uromastix sp., has an "iguanid type" papilla with a central short-ciliated unidirectional segment and apical and basal bidirectional segments.
(4) Lacking sympathetic innervation, the skin of A. carolinensis, an iguanid lizard, darkens within minutes in response to circulating melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH) or beta adrenergic agonists such as epinephrine (EPI).
(5) Over 60% of the cholesteryl esters present in plasma from three species each of iguanid and teiid lizards were polyenoic.
(6) Some conditions found in agamids are also found in anoline iguanids.
(7) Iguanid lizards exhibit considerable intraspecific variation in several aspects of their muscle composition.
(8) The purpose of the study is to show the interrelation between social structure, behaviour and ecological aspects of the iguanid lizard Tropidurus delanonis.
(9) Both are broader in gekkonoid than in iguanid lizards.
(10) The anguid, Ophisaurus ventralis, has an "iguanid" papillar pattern with the short-ciliated segment centrally located.
(11) In neonates of the iguanid lizard Sceloporus jarrovi, the metanephric kidney is only 63% as large as predicted from the allometric relationship between kidney mass and body mass in adults.
(12) In the species studies, efferent innervation was limited to the UHC, and except for the iguanid, C. wislizeni, it was nonexclusive, each fiber supplying two or more hair cells.
(13) The species studies were Crotaphytus wislizeni (iguanid), Podarcis (Lacerta) sicula and P. muralis (lacertids), Ameiva ameiva (teiid), Coleonyx variegatus (gekkonid), and Mabuya multifasciata (scincid).
(14) The circadian activity rhythm of the iguanid lizard Sceloporus olivaceus can be entrained by light cycles whether or not the animals have eyes.
(15) Current evidence suggests that in iguanid lizards either retinas or pineal glands, but not both in the same species, have important regulatory influences on circadian organization.
(16) This iguanid lizard hatches at a body mass of about 4 g and reaches adult masses of 40-70 g. Running velocity was little influenced by changes in body mass during development.
(17) Lizards, especially iguanids and varanids, frequently develop nutritional osteodystrophy in captivity, but its pathogenesis is incompletely understood.
(18) The prevalence of members of the family Enterobacteriaceae in the intestines of seven species of iguanid lizards native to west-central Texas was determined.
(19) tetrathyridia in two species of iguanid lizards (Cophosaurus texanus and Sceloporus olivaceous) from Texas.
(20) A lesser degree of development occurs in the iguanids, and practically no cochlear nuclei differentiation is observed in Chameleo.
Lizard
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
(n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.
(n.) A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(2) These lizards were introduced into Bermuda from Jamaica in 1905.
(3) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
(4) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
(5) Similarity and difference of the nuclei investigated in the turtles with the thalamic anterior nuclei in lizards, with the anterior and intralaminar nuclei in Mammalia are discussed.
(6) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
(7) The evolution of epidermal glands in gekkonid lizards is reviewed; the cellular dynamics of beta-glands are compared with those of unspecialized epidermis; the possibility that gekkonine epidermal glands respond to quantitative variation in circulating testosterone titers is discussed.
(8) The vitellogenic response was assessed by measuring the distribution of the 32P radioactivity between the acidoprecipitable plasma fraction and the plasma vitellogenin recognized by the lizard antivitellogenin serum.
(9) THe distribution of delta 5-3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, glucose-6phosphate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase and reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide diaphorase enzyme activities was studied in ovaries of the 3 species of lizards.
(10) A correlation was found between published resting and active VO2 of lizards, and between VO2 and lifestyle.
(11) The taxonomically close relationship between lizards and snakes, which together constitute the Squamata, is reflected in a similar distribution of DA fibers and varicosities to the dorsal ventricular ridge and the lateral cortex, and in the limited number of CSF-contacting DA neurons in the hypothalamus.
(12) Other than snake venoms, only venoms of the toad Bufo calamita and the lizards were hemorrhagic, and only venoms of the social wasps, social bees and harvester ant exhibited strong anticoagulant activity.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(14) Histochemical demonstration of beta-glucuronidase was carried out in the normal and regenerating tail of the house lizard, Hemidactylus flaviviridis.
(15) Intracellular records with glass microelectrodes filled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were taken from primary afferents of the horizontal semicircular canal in the lizard, Calotes versicolor.
(16) Neutral and traces of acidic mucins were detected in the secretory cells of lizards.
(17) Parachlorophenylalanine (p-CPA) was used for chemical pinealectomy in a study of tail regeneration in the gekkonid lizard, Hemidactylus flaviviridis.
(18) This proposal was tested with three species of malarial parasites of lizards, Plasmodium mexicanum of the western fence lizard, and P. agamae and P. giganteum of the African rainbow lizard, using single samples from naturally infected lizards, repeated samples from free-ranging lizards (P. mexicanum only), and repeated samples from laboratory maintained animals.
(19) After 3H testosterone injection into castrated males of the Lizard Lacerta vivipara, the radioactive compound is detected by radioautography of epididymis, femoral glands, gut and liver.
(20) Furthermore, when the isolated pineal of Dipsosaurus was studied in organ culture, it showed no circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion, as do pineals of some other lizard species, although it did produce large quantities of this hormone.