Sentences with phrase «incompressible vacuoles»

Regardless of its nature, dorsoventral axis inversion (35) would have brought the ventral midline tissue into a dorsal position in the chordate lineage, and the appearance of incompressible vacuoles (14) would have gradually transformed it into a stiff rod of constant length; the amphioxus notochord could then be regarded a vestige of a contractile - cartilaginous transition.