Sea SnakesKrieger Publishing Company, 1999 - 148 sivua This text describes the varieties and distribution of sea snakes, what they eat and what eats them, how they reproduce and grow, and how they cope with excess salt and scarcity of freshwater. It also discusses how they adjust to diving at depth, and describes the nature of their venom. |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 13
Sivu 99
... muscular junction to the membrane of the adjacent muscle where it attaches and stimulates muscle contraction . If the transmission of acetylcholine is blocked , the muscle is effectively paralysed . Snake toxins do that but in two ...
... muscular junction to the membrane of the adjacent muscle where it attaches and stimulates muscle contraction . If the transmission of acetylcholine is blocked , the muscle is effectively paralysed . Snake toxins do that but in two ...
Sivu 101
... Muscle from a fish envenomated with venom from the olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) ; bar = 0.50μm . Note swelling of the terminal cisternae , hyaline degenera- tion ( breakdown of the lattice structure of the muscle fibres ) and ...
... Muscle from a fish envenomated with venom from the olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) ; bar = 0.50μm . Note swelling of the terminal cisternae , hyaline degenera- tion ( breakdown of the lattice structure of the muscle fibres ) and ...
Sivu 124
... muscle damage , sometimes involving death of up to 60 per cent of certain muscle masses . It is the skeletal muscles that are damaged ; smooth muscle and heart muscle does not seem to be affected . Humans also may suffer swelling ...
... muscle damage , sometimes involving death of up to 60 per cent of certain muscle masses . It is the skeletal muscles that are damaged ; smooth muscle and heart muscle does not seem to be affected . Humans also may suffer swelling ...
Sisältö
PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
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Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Acalyptophis peronii Acrochordus granulatus Aipysurus duboisii Aipysurus eydouxii animals Astrotia stokesii Australia Barrier Reef Bitia hydroides blood body breathing cavum cent Cerberus rynchops clutch coast Cogger colubrid coral reefs Disteira diving eels eggs elapids Emydocephalus annulatus Enhydrina schistosa envenomation enzymes fang females Figure file snakes fish foraging Fordonia leucobalia fresh water freshwater genera Glen Burns Guinea habitat Harold Voris Heatwole homalopsines Hydrophis coggeri Hydrophis ornatus Indonesia Islands Kerilia land snakes Lapemis curtus Laticauda colubrina Laticauda semifasciata laticaudids Malaysia mangrove marine snakes metres muscle Myotoxins natricines Nerodia neurotoxins northern Australia occur olive sea snake oxygen Pelamis platurus Philippines Photograph courtesy Plate populations predators prey reptiles respiration respiratory saccular lung sea kraits sea snake Aipysurus sea snake bite sea snake venom skin snake Aipysurus laevis species of hydrophiids species of marine species of sea Sri Lanka submergence surface swallowing terrestrial snakes Thalassophina toxic toxins true sea snakes Zimmerman