Sentence examples for developmental character from inspiring English sources

Finally, Wigglesworth was thus able to formulate a coherent theory of insect metamorphosis involving the selective activation by hormones of the insect's genetic components, which in turn determine its morphology and developmental character.

Such men as Wilhelm Roscher and Karl Knies in Germany tended to dismiss the assumptions of timelessness and universality regarding economic behaviour that were almost axiomatic among the followers of Adam Smith, and they strongly insisted upon the developmental character of capitalism, evolving in a long series of stages from other types of economy.

A developmental character based on the newly presented younger larva of the species might give a hint for placing this species closer to Unipeltata sensu stricto than the species of Sculda.

a Inferred from morphological and developmental characters (based on Freeman 2005, Figure 31.10); b inferred from molecular characters (based on (Freeman 2005), Figure 31.13).

A new method to comprehensively describe developmental characters throughout all vertebrate groups is presented.

Therefore I elaborated a detailed description of 104 developmental characters of external morphology (Figure 2 4).

During the last decade the value of developmental characters in a phylogenetic framework was emphasised and new parsimony-based methods were developed to analyse phylogenetic patterns in embryology [5] [8].

Based on these comparisons I defined 104 developmental characters that are common either for all vertebrates (61 characters), gnathostomes (26), tetrapods (3), amniotes (7), or only for sauropsids (7).

Unfortunately, at present, a common language for defining developmental characters, which may serve as a basis to create a large comparable fundament for comparative embryology research, does not exist.

Male-limited evolution has led to increases in fitness that we have now linked to shifts in developmental characters, size, and adult behavioural phenotypes towards the male-specific optima suggested by sexual dimorphism.

But since developmental characters are of a continuous kind, ordering is a reasonable assumption [ 29, 41, 42].