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Nests of Sterna and Thalasseus may be so closely spaced that neighbouring birds spar with their bills as they incubate.

The paravian group, those closest to birds, have both enlarged sterna and also unusual features of the ribs called uncinate processes.

Tinamous have a keeled sternum and can fly (weakly), while ratites have flat sterna and reduced wings, and cannot fly at all.

We developed an easily reproducible experimental model using cadaveric human sterna and compared several wiring methods to assess closure strength and stability.

Fruma Elka Deitsch, a daughter of Sterna and Joseph Deitsch of New Haven, was married on Thursday to George Nathaniel Hambrecht, a son of Sarah and William Hambrecht of San Francisco.

The upper and lower parts of the thorax (sterna and terga respectively) are composed of segmental and intrasegmental sclerites which display secondary sclerotisation and considerable modification in the Lepidoptera.

Briefly, sternae and rib cages from neonatal pups are dissected, and chondrocytes are isolated via enzymatic digestions.

Internal parasites include the crustacean Reighardia sternae, and tapeworms such as Ligula intestinalis and members of the genera Diphyllobothrium and Schistocephalus.

Cartilage was highly abnormal in sternae and limbs of MSC SHP-2 KO mice.

The common tern (Sterna hirundo) and royal tern (Thalasseus maximus) and their relatives nest on the ground, whereas noddies (Anous) nest in bushes or on cliff ledges, and the fairy tern (Gygis alba) deposits its single egg on the limb of a tree or bush.

In the monotrysian type is an opening on the fused segments of the sterna 9 and 10, which act as insemination and oviposition.