Sentence examples for retain prey from inspiring English sources

Many salamanders have patches of teeth attached to the vomer and the palatine bones in the roof of the mouth, and these help to retain prey.

The strict definition requires that a plant must possess morphological adaptations that attract prey through scent or visual cues, capture and retain prey (i.e. the waxy scales of Brocchinia reducta or downward facing hairs of Heliamphora prevent escape), digest the dead prey through enzymes produced by the plant, and absorb the products of digestion through specialized structures.

The gastric musculature was, therefore, likely designed for retaining prey and the mechanical preparation of food.

Horizontal orb webs are fairly common, despite being less effective at intercepting and retaining prey and more vulnerable to damage by rain and falling debris.

The whale then expels the water, using its baleen plates to retain the prey.

In that species, a highly viscid fluid was suspected to retain dead prey in event of flooding during rain [35].

Studies of trophic morphology in postglacial radiations have mostly focused on the gill rakers, which are thought to enable zooplanktivorous limnetic ecomorphs to retain small prey items obtained through suction feeding [ 62, 63].

Approximately 2000 colonies of each bait were collected and then restreaked twice on dropout media lacking tryptophan in order to preferentially retain the prey plasmid and lose the bait plasmid thereby reducing the complexity of the plasmid pool for next-generation sequencing [ 28].

All single polyps captured, released and retained zooplankton prey (Fig. 2).

Although unable to capture prey, pandas retain a taste for meat, which is used as bait to capture them for radio collaring and has made them pests in human camps on occasion.

Despite the apparent lack of interaction, polyps without flatworms retained significantly more prey than their clonemates hosting flatworms at a prey concentration of 1,000 nauplii L−1 (simple effects, F1,16 = 8.110, P = 0.012).