vertebrate

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Yet in advancing from the amphibian to the reptile the evolution of the vertebrate was far from finished.

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  1. adjective Having a backbone or spinal column.
  2. adjective Of or characteristic of vertebrates or a vertebrate.
  3. noun A member of the subphylum Vertebrata, a primary division of the phylum Chordata that includes the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, all of which are characterized by a segmented spinal column and a distinct well-differentiated head.

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  • I think she will laugh when I tell her she is a vertebrate, a mammal, a quadruped; and I shall be very sorry to tell her that she belongs to the order Carnivora. —  Story of My Life
  • Oh, and Logicel, thank you, tho 'I guess I should also mention I'm male (far as I know -- vertebrate biology was never my strength, truth is). —  Pharyngula
  • Sericomyrmex and other lower attine species have been previously reported as important secondary dispersers of seeds in various tropical habitats, where they retrieve typically vertebrate-dispersed seeds with adhering fruit. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Roberts JT, Heithaus ER (1986) Ants rearrange the vertebrate-generated seed shadow of a Neotropical fig tree. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Based on few studies investigating PUM2 function, it is assumed that mammalian PUFs have physiological roles analogous to the non-vertebrate homologs: in germ cells, PUM2 interacts with deleted in azoospermia (DAZ), DAZ-like (DAZL) proteins, and the meiotic regulator BOULE (BOL), which are RBPs that function in early germ line stem cells —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. Latin vertebrātus, having joints, from vertebra, vertebra; see vertebra.

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  1. = French vertébré = Spanish Portuguese vertebrado = Italian vertebrato, from Latin vertebratus, jointed, articulated, vertebrated, from vertebra, joint, vertebra: see vertebra.
  2. from vertebrate, adjective
 

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