Thus, in contrast to the ventral nervous system of tardigrades, neither the bases of leg nerves nor the cell bodies of motor neurons are shifted anteriorly with respect to each leg pair in onychophorans.
The thermal flow down these two legs is given by 2κ(a/L ΔT, where κ is their average thermal conductivity in watts per metre-kelvin, a (or w2) is the area in square metres of the base of each leg, L is the length of each leg in metres, and ΔT is the temperature differential between source and sink in kelvins.
This first study considers a rubber foot at the base of each leg and we model it with a compliant contact between the leg and the ground.
We'd ask him to do us some one-armed press-ups and he'd knock out 20 on the spot; we'd ask him to lift us a chair with one hand by the base of the leg and he'd cleanly lift it, but the best was when we'd get our semi-friendly freak to do us a handstand that went walkies.
Here, a mammal-type means the robot which locates its foot vertically downward from the base of the leg as a standard posture (Fig. 1a).
This communication describes an efficient and convergent synthesis of monodisperse, nanometer-sized, and tripod-shaped oligo phenylene)s with a triallylsilyl group at the base of each leg and a chlorophenyl group at the focal point of the tripod.
The closest living relatives of arthropods, the velvet worms (Onychophora), have a pair of nephridia on most body segments, and they resemble those of many aquatic animals (Fig. 6a) in being composed of an excretory duct starting at the animal's exterior (opening to a pore at the inner base of each leg in velvet worms) and ending with a funnel-shaped, hair-lined opening into the body.
Female didn't show the male-like foreleg gustatory bristle expression, but they did have multiple GFP-positive cells in the forelegs (Fig. 4C), including three with intensive expression at the base of the leg near where chordotonal organs are located (arrow).
To provide oriented display of gp140 trimers on the surface of these lipid nanocapsules, we took advantage of the 6 histidine residues at the base of each "leg" of the trimer (originally incorporated to facilitate purification of the protein), and utilized these to multivalently anchor gp140T to Ni-NTA-functionalized lipids incorporated in the particle bilayers.
