Sentences with phrase «of tiger salamanders»
Her new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology investigates the stresses experienced by the limb bones of tiger salamanders during terrestrial locomotion.
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By examining the hind and forelimbs of a tiger salamanders, researchers have revealed how they may have transitioned from life at sea to life on land.
A new study comparing the forces acting on fins of mudskipper fish and on the forelimbs of tiger salamanders can now be used to analyze early fossils that spanned the water - to - land transition in tetrapod evolution, and further understand their capability to move on land.
Studies of tiger salamanders and the Asian salamander Hynobius retardatus have found that cannibal morphs develop when larvae are crowded in large numbers and are mostly unrelated (same species but from different parents).
Comparative limb bone loading in the humerus and femur of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum: Testing the «mixed - chain» hypothesis for skeletal safety factors.
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The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.
This means that, in addition to being inbred, almost all of the axolotls in labs and aquariums today are actually part tiger salamander.
Here, scientists brought in a series of wild axolotls to mix up the gene pool and at one point even added in tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum).
They compared the forces experienced by the pectoral fins of the mudskipper fishes to the forelimbs and hind limbs of walking tiger salamanders.
There are a large number of amphibian species in the world and some of the species most commonly kept as pets include the South American horned frogs, tiger salamanders, waxy monkey tree frog and the African clawed frog.
The United States is home to many terrestrial salamanders, most notably tigers, spotted and marbled (again, all of the Ambystoma genus) and these should all once more enter the marketplace.