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dorsoventral

ADJECTIVE
  1. extending from the back to the belly

How To Use dorsoventral In A Sentence

  • The positive allometry in both groups suggests that larger species loaded their jaws more heavily, because deeper jaws are much stronger in resisting loads applied dorsoventrally, as during jaw closure.
  • In galloping, the epaxial and hypaxial muscles function to produce dorsoventral bending of the vertebral column, and muscles fire bilaterally and uniphasically.
  • In wild-type hermaphrodites, germ cells at the dorsoventral flexure exit the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase and proceed to diakinesis.
  • the ray has a dorsoventrally flattened body
  • Two muscles are key to dorsoventral expansion of the buccal cavity, which characterizes the expansive phase of a suction-feeding event in zebrafish larvae.
  • Many whales are alive today, and they swim by dorsoventral undulation of their tail flukes.
  • Muscles necessary for the rapid dorsoventral expansion of the head are composed primarily of fast-twitch fibers while those involved in more tonic contractions such as hyoid protraction have more slow-twitch muscle fibers.
  • The nuclei are desynchronized along the dorsoventral axis with chromosome bridges.
  • Other mutations affect the dorsoventral subdivision of the somites by the horizontal myoseptum. Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes
  • The hard ticks are flattened dorsoventrally in the unfed state, possess a marginal outline which tapers toward the anterior, and the mouthparts are clearly visible.
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