Sentence examples for a diversity of shell from inspiring English sources
Similarly, there is a diversity of shell shapes and sizes ranging from 12 cm (about 5 inches), such as in the African dwarf mud turtle (Pelusios nanus), to more than 90 cm (35 inches) long, such as in the giant South American river turtle, or arrau (Podocnemis expansa).
Our results corroborate a previous allozyme study [ 57] regarding Marquesan monophyly and adaptive radiation – Marquesan taxa exhibit a diversity of distinct shell phenotypes.
With a diversity of pigmented shell morphotypes governed by Mendelian patterns of inheritance, the common grove snail, Cepaea nemoralis, has served as a model for evolutionary biologists and population geneticists for decades.
In Rhagada, including additional mainland lineages not represented in the Dampier Archipelago, only Clade D exhibits the exceptional diversity of shell form [ 7], suggesting that it too has a special capacity for morphological evolution.
It has long been acknowledged that the diversity of shell types found in gastropod, bivalve and scaphopod mollusks are achieved through the ordered secretion of proteins and other molecules along the length of mantle [ 18- 21], however the full complexity and role of differential gene activity in the mantle remains undescribed.
A diversity of protease inhibitor domain-containing proteins has been observed in other molluscan shell forming proteomes [ 6, 29, 33].
The gel shell with positively charged functional groups is infiltrative, and then a diversity of species can be loaded into the gel by electrostatic interaction.
Zeotiles present a diversity of tridimensional nanoslab assemblies with mesopores.
