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The most typical terns are the approximately 30 species of the genus Sterna, with forked tail, black cap or crest, and pale body.

Transfection of chondrocytes, isolated from embryonic chicken sterna, with a chicken miniversican construct accelerated the reversionprocess, while expression of an antisense construct inhibited it.

Most terns were formerly treated as belonging to one large genus, Sterna, with just a few dark species placed in other genera; in 1959, only the noddies and the Inca tern were excluded from Sterna.

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The Snowy-crowned Tern is pale gray overall with a small black eye mask instead of the typical Sterna cap, an orange bill with a black band in the breeding season (black with pale tip in non-breeding), long, pearly white wings, and orange legs.

Where nesting with Common Terns (Sterna hirundo), they take more invertebrates than that species.

With various tern (Sterna sandvicensis, S. hirundo, S. paradisaea) colonies located across Strangford Lough, Swan island presents the nearest colony to any of these wake features (Fig. 1).

Their sterna are deep and sculpted with a large cristospina projecting anteriorly, allowing for anchorage of large muscles involved in the flapping downstroke [73].

This is an advantage compared with most foraging studies which compare only two age classes, but see [13], like a recent study [17], which could therefore only detect the initial increase in foraging ability from young to adult common terns Sterna hirundo while a change with age in old birds might have been overlooked.

Along with the Snowy-crowned Tern (Sterna trudeaui), the South American Tern is the most widespread tern in the now restricted "Sterna" group of mid-sized terns.

The area from the suprasellar cistern to the inferior margin of the sterna end of the clavicle was examined with a head-and-neck combined coil in a slice thickness of 5 mm with 0.5 mm interslice gap.