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Loxochlamys having 13-15 prominent radial rounded-trigonal plicae that begin early in ontogeny and remain of moderate height throughout ontogeny.
Furthermore, foraminiferal growth is often strongly allometric, and in many foraminifers the shape of the chamber changes during ontogeny.
The most thoroughly studied system is the ontogeny of hemocyanin structure and function in Cancer magister, the Dungeness crab.
How can changes in an ancestral ontogeny be reconstructed, since the ancestors of most craniate radiations are extinct?
Some species live entirely in this restricted habitat, but most become ammoniacal late in ontogeny, as they approach semelparous reproduction.
So these small horns may be more relevant to the study of dinosaur ontogeny than phylogeny.
Moreover, three of them could constitute a morphological series, continuously related through ontogeny.
During turtle ontogeny the reduction of the trunk myomeres leads to sinking of the vertebrae and ribs into the dermis.
The auricles in early ontogeny are relatively large and distinctly trigonal, with their free margins meeting the hinge line at acute angles.
The ontogeny and dimorphic features of many early Middle Ordovician ostracode species are still poorly known.
In both cases, alterations of developmental timing produce parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny.
These models stress the dynamics during ontogeny of the cellular components of growth and morphogenesis.
There is however one problem, namely that much of the ontogeny and behavior of biological organisms is not intentional.
In most birds, diverticula of the abdominal air sacs pneumatize the posterior thoracic vertebrae and synsacrum later in ontogeny.
Heterometry should be applicable only to morphological features that are considered fixed in number through ontogeny.
Discuss in detail a good example of recapitulation, showing how the stages of ontogeny parallel those of phylogeny.
In the normal lymphoid ontogeny, genomic recombinations occur in a tightly regulated sequence and require an enzyme called recombinase.
Specialization on alternative food resources might drive evolutionary shifts in jaw ontogeny and morphology.
However, the examination of specific cases may still yield valuable insight into the relationship between phylogeny, ontogeny and ecology.
Progress in our understanding of the relationships between ontogeny and phylogeny forever seems to be bogged in nomenclatural disputes.
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In ontogeny the notochord is a derivative of the dorsal wall of the archenteron.
Each ontogeny begins in a minute germ cell, in which a small quantity of idioplasm is contained.
Let us first cast a historical glance at the older ontogeny, and the theory of preformation which is connected with it.
In these cases the advanced condition in the series of melanic colors appears only late in ontogeny.
But they may also be associated in succession, such as those of hearing and of ontogeny.
Our ontogeny, Dr. Raye, is so simple that it can scarcely be said to exist at all.
This denture is nothing else than a phylogenetic incident in the ontogeny of the whale.
This is afforded by comparative anatomy and by the study of ontogeny.
The facts and theories respecting this are now discussed ontogeny.
This, however, had better also be deferred to the chapter on ontogeny.
Thus, then, in ontogeny the fish goes no further than the fish stages.
As we have seen, ontogeny is not completed at hatching or birth.
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