Xu, Xiaoyan Wu, Jianing Wang, Kai Yang, Yunqiang Yan, Shaoze
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Journal of theoretical biology
How can a water snail lock its door by an operculum? In this theoretical and experimental combined research, we revealed this by dissection, modeling and validation with a 3D printed technique. The operculum is a corneous or calcareous trapdoor-like sheet which attaches to the upper surface of the water snail's foot. It can plug the shell aperture ...
Meyer, Christian Faroni-Perez, Larisse Purschke, Günter
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Zoomorphology
The reef-building sedentary polychaete, Sabellaria alveolata, is well known for its specialized anterior end, the operculum, which is exposed to the environment during vital activities, such as feeding or as it seals its tube when the animal withdraws. This region represents the most important sensory structure in Sabellariidae. It comprises two lo...
Lenoir, Cédric Algoet, Maxime Mouraux, André
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The Journal of physiology
Deep continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) of the right operculo-insular cortex delivered with a double cone coil selectively impairs the ability to perceive thermonociceptive input conveyed by Aδ-fibre thermonociceptors without concomitantly affecting the ability to perceive innocuous warm, cold or vibrotactile sensations. Unlike deep cTBS, su...
Nardi, Kaire de Oliveira
Xyridaceae and Mayacaceae are related families, which are included in the Poales. Xyridaceae is sister-group of Eriocaulaceae and both families form the xyrid clade. Mayacaceae has an unstable phylogenetic position, emerging either in the xyrid clade, or in the cyperid clade. This study aimed to analyze the embryogenesis and post-seminal developmen...
Nardi, Kaire de Oliveira
Xyridaceae and Mayacaceae are related families, which are included in the Poales. Xyridaceae is sister-group of Eriocaulaceae and both families form the xyrid clade. Mayacaceae has an unstable phylogenetic position, emerging either in the xyrid clade, or in the cyperid clade. This study aimed to analyze the embryogenesis and post-seminal developmen...
Mazzottini-dos-Santos, Hellen Cássia Ribeiro, Leonardo Monteiro Oliveira, Denise Maria Trombert
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Trees
Key messageInteraction between embryo growth and cytochemical changes in the micropylar endosperm promote the overcoming of dormancy in Cerrado palm seeds.AbstractDormancy in palm seeds is modulated by structural components. However, changes in the structures that are responsible for permitting the conclusion of germination are still poorly underst...
Tomasino, Barbara Nobile, Maria Re, Marta Bellina, Monica Garzitto, Marco Arrigoni, Filippo Molteni, Massimo Fabbro, Franco Brambilla, Paolo
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Brain and cognition
This fMRI study investigated mental simulation of state/psychological and action verbs during adolescence. Sixteen healthy subjects silently read verbs describing a motor scene or not (STIMULUS: motor, state/psychological verbs) and they were explicitly asked to imagine the situation or they performed letter detection preventing them from using sim...
Vilizzi, Lorenzo
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Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
The common carp Cyprinus carpio is one of the most widely-distributed freshwater fishes in the world. Due to its value for conservation and fisheries in several native/translocated areas of distribution and its detrimental effects on the aquatic ecosystem in most invasive areas, robust age-based population dynamics models are required for successfu...
Zhang, Zhiliang Skovsted, Christian Zhang, Zhifei
The hyolithid Paramicrocornus zhenbaensis from the lower Cambrian (Cambrian Series 2) Shuijingtuo Formation of southern Shaanxi and western Hubei provinces of the Yangtze Platform is well-preserved in three dimensions. The morphology of the conch and operculum of P. zhenbaensis shows that this species lacked helens, which are considered to be chara...
Obaid, Sami Tucholka, Alan Ghaziri, Jimmy Jodoin, Pierre-Marc Morency, Félix Descoteaux, Maxime Bouthillier, Alain Nguyen, Dang K
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NeuroImage. Clinical
In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), advanced neuroimaging techniques reveal anomalies extending beyond the temporal lobe such as thinning of fronto-central cortices. Operculo-insular epilepsy (OIE) is an under-recognized and poorly characterized condition with the potential of mimicking TLE. In this work, we investigated insular and extra-insular cort...
