(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.
Squamata
Definition:
(n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The emission spectra of luminescence in O. californica and A. squamata are broad with a half band width of 71 nm and an approximate emission maximum at 510 nm.
(3) The comparative study of the aortic trunks of Dibamus (subterranean limbless Squamate) and of the other Squamata shows the presence of an original vascular organization in the serpentiform animals submitted to the subterranean life constraints as Scolecophidia, Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, Anniellidae, Feyliniidae, and some Scincidae (genus Acontias and Typhlosaurus).
(4) It is suggested that toxin-resistant acetylcholine receptors appeared early in the evolution of Squamata and preceded the appearance of alpha-neurotoxins.
(5) The distribution of luminescence in Ophiopsila californica and Amphipholis squamata is described on the basis of image intensification, fluorescence microscopy, and histological techniques.
(6) The optokinetik reactivity of lizards (Calotes versicolor Daud., Agamidae, Squamata) varies spontaneously within seconds.
(7) The epithelium of the extrapulmonary airways of a Chelonia (Mauremys caspica) and a Squamata (Lacerta lepida) was investigated by means of conventional light and transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, histochemistry and immunocytochemistry.
(8) The variability of sperm basic proteins in representatives of three reptilian orders, Squamata, Testudines, and Crocodylia, has been examined by cytochemistry, acid-urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and amino acid analysis of amidoblack-stained bands.
(9) Prevalences of poxvirus-like lesions were determined for 177 northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) and 24 scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) trapped in southern Texas from 1976 to 1979 and for 190 northern bobwhites and 105 scaled quail shot at five locations in southern Texas from 1980 to 1981.
(10) The present results show that marked morphological differences occur between the epithelia of the extrapulmonary airways of reptiles belonging to the genus Chelonia and Squamata.
(11) New host records include Ophthalmophagus striatus (Crossley) 1952 from Columbigallina passerina, Boydaia clarki Fain 1963 from Callipepla squamata, Boydaia falconis Fain 1956 from Falco sparverius, and Boydaia tyrannus Ford 1959 from Myiarchus cinerascens.
(12) The interpretation of original features of the aortic trunks showed by subterranean limbless Squamata allows to propose a hypothesis about a particular pattern of elongation regarding the anterior part of these Reptiles.
(13) If a caudo-proximal reduction of the brachial plexus occurs early in the lepidosaurian line and exists in all the Squamata, even in the Iguana which have well developed limbs, it is not the same for the reduction of the lombo-sacral plexus which does not appear in these Iguana.
(14) Heterologous radioimmunoassays (RIAs) for the mammalian prodynorphin end products, alpha-neo-endorphin, dynorphin A(1-17), dynorphin A(1-8), and dynorphin B(1-13) were used to screen brain extracts obtained from representatives of the major surviving orders of reptiles: Chelonia (Pseudemys scripta), Squamata (Anolis carolinensis), and Crocodylia (Alligator mississippiensis).
(15) These features support the idea that the amphisbaenids could be situated within the Squamata at the same level as in Ophidia and Lacertilia.
(16) Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) was oncogenic for the following nine species of reptiles representing 6 families from Chelonia and Squamata orders: family of Testudinidae: 1.