brood pouch

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brood pouch

[′brüd ‚pau̇ch]

(vertebrate zoology)

A pouch of an animal body where eggs or embryos undergo certain stages of development.

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Prior to egg deposition into the brood pouch, mature oocytes or eggs were seen in the thoracic segments of adult females (Fig.

Embryonic development and expression analysis of Distal-less in Caprella scaura (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidea)

Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefishes (Family Syngnathidae): Rapid diversification of paternal brood pouch morphology inferred from a molecular phylogeny.

Hippichthys albomaculosus, a new species of freshwater pipefish (Pisces: Syngnathidae) from Fiji

The reproductive state of adult males (full or empty brood pouch) was determined by visual (and in ambiguous cases, manual) inspection.

Validation of a method for estimating realized annual fecundity in a multiple spawner, the long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus), using underwater visual census

Embryos were removed from the brood pouch of 37 randomly selected females.

LIFE HISTORY AND MULTIPLE ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSES OF AN INVERTEBRATE PELAGIC PREDATOR, BYTHOTREPHES LONGIMANUS

parmerong was determined by adult host plant choice, the mobility of juvenile amphipods after release from the maternal brood pouch was assessed.

PREFERENCE-PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIPS AND EFFECTS OF HOST PLANT CHOICE IN AN HERBIVOROUS MARINE AMPHIPOD

First, each brood pouch was divided into 14 sections and marked [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1B OMITTED].

Polygynandry in the dusky pipefish Syngnathus floridae revealed by microsatellite DNA markers

A female "impregnated" him by inserting eggs in his brood pouch. He then fertilized the eggs and nurtured the embryos until they were ready to be on their own.

A Father's Day top ten: lessons from America's animal kingdom in how to be a superdad

Although the duration of incubation is not known, all embryos in the brood pouch of a single individual are at comparable stages of development.

New Molluscan larval form: brooding and development in a hydrothermal vent gastropod, Ifremeria nautilei (Provannidae)

The radioactively labelled eggs could then be tracked using special instruments which registered how the nutrients moved from the embryos into the brood pouch and furthermore into the body of the male pipefish.

Pipefish males kill their own kids for nutrients

"The brood pouches would have helped young trilobites survive."

Bubble-Headed Mom

The young chick is then brooded in the guard phase, spending time balanced on its parent's feet and sheltered in the brood pouch.

P-p-p-pick up the pace, kids; PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES CUTE IMAGES OF PENGUIN FAMILY

(2000) point out that retention of competent offspring within brood pouches represents a form of extended parental care.

Some aspects of the reproductive biology of two populations of Musculium argentinum (d'Orbigny, 1835) (bivalvia: sphaeriidae) from Southern Chile

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