How To Use Plethodon In A Sentence
- Egg size, the zoological counterpart of seed size, has not been nearly as well studied, but is known to correlate positively with genome size in cladoceran crustaceans and plethodontid salamanders.
- Red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, use territorial advertisement in the form of agonistic displays and pheromonal scent marking as a mechanism for intraspecific interference competition.
- All plethodontids are also lungless (lunglessness and reduced lungs are independently derived in the few other salamander species showing this character).
- Oxygen uptake can also occur through the skin and the mouth membranes (as in the plethodontids, the lung-less salamanders).
- Some researchers have suggested a relationship with the lungless plethodontids instead.
- Morphological homoplasy, life history evolution, and historical biogeography of plethodontid salamanders inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Archive 2006-03-01
- The results show that red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus), garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) and gastropod abundance as well as invertebrate richness (no. of species or higher level taxa) were higher in control than in exclosure plots. Deer and gastropods revisited
- All adult plethodontids have four limbs, with four digits on the forelimbs.
