Sentence examples for body pattern from inspiring English sources

The asymmetry is believed to have evolved from a generalized, symmetrical percoid (sea bass) body pattern in a fish that habitually rested on its side.

Their body pattern also changes from spots to a series of elongate wavy patterns.

The females, however, retain the juvenile features of diamond-shaped body and body pattern of spots (Fig. 9).

This is illustrated in Fig. 5b in which two closely related fish lineages evolve in the same way, resulting in two lineages with a striped body pattern.

"The interesting thing about this is the combination of a sophisticated behavior of locomotion with an equally sophisticated cryptic body pattern".

A relative modest example occurs in the Indian Ocean blue boxfish, Strophiurichthys robustus, where both male and female juveniles have a diamond-shaped body and a body pattern dominated by spots.

He had more success as a sponsor of the International Executive Service Corps, a volunteer body patterned after the Peace Corps.

Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are essential for accurate axial body patterning during embryonic development.

Fig. 9 The adult female of the blue boxfish Stropiurichthys robustus is paedomorphic compared with the male, resembling the juvenile in body shape and body patterning.

Or, as in Fig. 5a, fish lineages that originally had different body patterns might independently evolve analogous vertical stripes, perhaps because of selection for a particular camouflage pattern.

At the organism level, apparent patterns can be seen in leopard spots, zebra stripes, peacock feathers, cephalopod body patterning, and so on.