Sentence examples for pelvic fin from inspiring English sources

Male chimaeras, unique among fishes, also possess a supplemental clasping organ, the tentaculum, on the forehead and in front of each pelvic fin.

These results show that tbx4 has a role in pelvic fin formation in teleosts and suggests that the loss of pelvic fins in H. comes may be related to the loss of tbx4. Figure 3: Pelvic fin loss in H. comes is associated with loss of tbx4.

Positively scored individuals were slender bodied in the area between the dorsal and pelvic fins created by an anterior shift in the pelvic fin.

through the ventral midline, about 1 to 1.5 pelvic fin lengths anterior to the pelvic fin base.

Pelvic fin length was measured as length of the pelvic spine from the X-rays of the dissected pelvic fin.

Females feature an eye-catching pelvic fin greatly differing from that of males.

Consequently, the pelvic fin could honestly enhance the transfer of quality information about an individual, and males could expect direct fitness benefits when choosing a female that shows a larger pelvic fin.

To achieve this we conducted a series of mate choice experiments using computer animations of females that artificially differed in the size of the pelvic fin.

In the F0 mutant tbx4 fish we observed pelvic fin loss at low frequency.

gRNA#1 gave 3/42 fish with either double- or single-sided pelvic fin loss whereas 1/34 had single-sided pelvic fin loss for gRNA#2 (Extended Data Fig. 5).

In pufferfish (fugu), pelvic fin loss is associated with a change in the expression pattern of hoxd9a20.