Statolith may refer to: A structure in the statocyst, which allows certain invertebrates to sense gravity and balance A structure in the statocyte, cells...
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structure containing a mineralised mass (statolith) and numerous innervated sensory hairs (setae). The statolith's inertia causes it to push against the...
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ear + λῐ́θος, líthos, a stone), also called statoconium, otoconium or statolith, is a calcium carbonate structure in the saccule or utricle of the inner...
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Gravitropism (section Statoliths)
ability to sense gravity in several ways, one of which is through statoliths. Statoliths are dense amyloplasts, organelles that synthesize and store starch...
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Amyloplast (redirect from Statoliths)
green. Amyloplasts are thought to play a vital role in gravitropism. Statoliths, a specialized starch-accumulating amyloplast, are denser than cytoplasm...
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with hairs which detect the movements of internal mineral grains called statoliths. If the body tilts in the wrong direction, the animal rights itself by...
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organ's main component is a statocyst, a balance sensor consisting of a statolith, a tiny grain of calcium carbonate, supported on four bundles of cilia...
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longfin squid eggs took longer to hatch in acidified water, and the squid's statolith was smaller and malformed in animals placed in sea water with a lower...
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Apical meristem in root tip: 1: Meristem 2: Columella showing statocytes with statoliths 3: Lateral part of the tip 4: Dead cells 5: Elongation zone...
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Histioteuthidae) in the Eastern Arabian Sea and Determination of its Age from Statoliths". Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences. 34 (2): 383–390...
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eyes. The rhopalia also feature a heavy crystal-like structure called a statolith, which, due to the flexibility of the rhopalia, keep the eyes oriented...
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amyloplasts-statoliths – starch-filled amyloplastic organelles – which sediment at the lowest part of the cells. In the roots, sedimentation of the statoliths towards...
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cycle is thought to take just over a single year to complete, based on statolith analysis but the larger squid of over 500mm mantle length are thought...
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gigas in 1912. The fossil species Dosidicus lomita is represented in statoliths from the Pliocene Lomita Marl of California, marking the earliest known...
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statocysts surrounded by the oesophageal gland, each statocyst with a single statolith. There are also sensory ctenidial bursicles on the tip of the gill filaments;...
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eyes, two with lenses, and two each of slot and pit pigment eyes. The statolith is oval and is located at the base of each rhopalium. There are eight...
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This gravitational theory of gravisensing is directly opposed to the statolith theory exhibited by the settling of amyloplasts. Cytoplasmic streaming...
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a giant squid can be determined by "growth rings" in the statocyst's statolith, similar to determining the age of a tree by counting its rings. Much...
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squids can be estimated through analysis of statolith microstructure. There are two growth zones in statolith microstructures: an inner, translucent postnuclear...
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(134 KiB) Marine Biology 136(1): 91–99. Jackson, G.D. 1988. The Use of Statolith Microstructures to Analyze Life-history Events in the Small Tropical Cephalopod...
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suggest that aragonite crystals in crystal cells have the same function as statoliths, allowing it to use gravity for spatial orientation. Located in the dorsal...
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the root). These cells respond to gravity by special organelles, the statoliths, that redistribute auxin from the vasculature to the root epidermis and...
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Many other invertebrates grow a few hard parts, largely mineralised, as statoliths and similar structures, but those are not generally referred to as sclerites...
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through the analysis of the statolith. The statolith on a common bobtail squid is small, with a size of 0.41mm to 0.57mm. A statolith has growth marks, bands...
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reel. Loligo is the oldest true squid genus known from fossil remains; statoliths assigned to the extinct species Loligo applegatei are known from the early...
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of arms, but no other reproductive tissues present. Muscle tissue and statolith collected by Greta Pecl of Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute...
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D.; Smart, Christopher W. (1 May 2016). "EXCEPTIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF STATOLITHS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CHRISTIAN MALFORD LAGERSTÄTTE (CALLOVIAN, JURASSIC)...
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needs further study to determine if it is a valid species or a synonym. "Statoliths of Cenozoic teuthoid cephalopods from North America | The Palaeontological...
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