The pouch functions by trapping insects so that they are forced to climb up past the staminode, behind which they collect or deposit pollen.
Tuck a chapstick into the pouch part.
He extracted a black marker and a piece of paper from a zippered navy snakeskin pouch, which functioned like a briefcase, and quickly sketched a portrait of the woman.
It is not necessary to keep longer ascending colon and cecum for the function of pouch.
This may be due to the increased size of brood pouches of the old males, or better function of the pouches in old males (Berglund et al., 1986; Azzarello, 1991; Carcupino et al., 2002; Dzyuba et al., 2006).
Another possible function of the pouch is heat absorption, especially from the sensitive brain area above it.
This pouch is similar to the placental function in mammals and acts like the mammalian uterus, and the embryos become embedded within depressions of the interior lining of the brood pouch (Carcupino et al., 1997; Foster and Vincent, 2004).
As shown in Figure 1, the bypassed stomach and the loop of small intestine (termed the biliopancreatic limb) that is distal to the pylorus but proximal to the jejunojejunal anastomosis may function as a blind pouch.
Consistent with this notion, we observed that puc loss-of-function clones in wing pouch were considerably smaller than wild-type controls, and could be rescued significantly by blocking Wg signaling.
This previously underappreciated morphogenetic role of mesodermal Tbx1 in pouch development helps to clarify the tissue-specific functions and molecular targets of this crucial DiGeorge syndrome gene during craniofacial development.
