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vertebrate | American Dictionary

vertebrate
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvɜr·tə·brət/
biology
an animal that has a spine (= bone down the center of the back)

vertebrate

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈvɜrt·ə·brət/

Examples of vertebrate

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However, in rodents and other vertebrates, postnatal cell loss may be more significant.
In vertebrates, there are two groups of cells that show a remarkable capacity for migration- the neural crest cells and the nerve cells.
To what extent is the signal in the chick the same as in other vertebrates?
Thus, alterations in different genes have distinct effects on the pallium, which may help to explain the different models found in vertebrates.
Remarkably, the primary dispersal is by vertebrates, in whose guts the caruncles are not destroyed.
In particular, we have examined mammals and birds, two groups of vertebrates separated by over 300 million years of evolutionary divergence.
Exceptions there are, notably with the echinoderms and some vertebrates, but these are rather brief and the great wealth of palaeontological data is largely overlooked.
If you happen to need detailed information about fossil track sites, particularly those of large vertebrates, then this is an extremely useful and insightful compilation.
They are comparable to the fixed histocytes of vertebrates and as the nematode body fluid flows by them, they may purify it.
One of the most prominent consequences of toxicant - trematode interactions in vertebrates is an increase in the occurrence of cancerous tumours.
Do lower vertebrates have a subset of blood coagulation factors ?
The fences were highly effective at excluding rabbits but larger vertebrates, for example roe and muntjac deer, occasionally jumped over them.
The first sequence produces the id and coincides with the evolution of the vertebrates.
Studies on plants, invertebrates, lower vertebrates, mammals and humans at the molecular and cellular levels will be accepted.
Studies on plants, invertebrates, lower vertebrates, mammals and humans at the molecular and cellular levels are accepted, leading to a unique multidisciplinary publication.
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