chordate

How To Use chordate In A Sentence

• In hemichordates, the three adult coelomic cavities are derived from coelomic sacs that form around the gut of the larva (an unpaired protocoel and two pairs of sacs for the mesocoel and metacoel).
• As an initial matter, the echinoderms and chordate phyla have been arranged in almost every possible phylogenetic order.
• Molecular phylogenies have suggested that hemichordates are in fact a sister lineage to the echinoderms.
• The origin of vertebrates has always been a core question in evolutionary biology. It is well accepted that vertebrates and invertebrate chordate derived from a common ancestor.
• Most biologists are familiar with only a few of the approximately 40 extant animal phyla such as annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms and chordates.
• We chordates are deuterostomes, as are echinoderms, some marine worms called hemichordates, and the urochordates, or sea squirts.
• In contrast, a region deep in the brain associated with reward processing, attention and motor movements - the chordate nucleus - was enlarged in subjects who were addicted to the drug. Cocaine addiction linked to brain abnormalities
• Here we are with an echinoderm, a mollusc, and a chordate. Steve Steve and the Pirates and Philosophers of the Prairie - The Panda's Thumb
• Comparison of their photoreceptive cells with those of the chordates corroborated such a phylogenetic position.
• Amphioxus is a primitive chordate, more primitive than lampreys, that clot their haemolymph. The Panda's Thumb: Ian Musgrave Archives