invertebrate
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, invertebrates such as snow crab and northern shrimp boomed.
From Salon
What they found is a surprising similarity between invertebrates and us spine-endowed land dwellers.
From Salon
And indeed, in recent studies in invertebrate animal models, our lab discovered that the changes in taste caused by high dietary sugar intake drove higher eating by impairing these food predictions.
From Salon
For one thing, they are generalists, feeding on whatever food they can find—fruits, invertebrates or a discarded chicken bone.
From Scientific American
For invertebrate creatures such as insects, researchers have generally assumed the stress is strictly physiological, like a plant wilting when deprived of water.
From Scientific American
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