dextral

How To Use dextral In A Sentence

• Dextral slip was not responsible for opening most of the rift basins in Thailand.
• Therefore, an aberrant individual with a tall sinistral shell among tall-shelled dextral conspecifics is more likely to be able to mate and leave offspring than one with a wide sinistral shell among wide-shelled dextral conspecifics. How snails mate: Oxyloma retusa
• It is interesting to speculate why most screw threads are dextral and only a relatively small number are sinistral threads.
• Sinistral individuals in normally dextral populations often deviate slightly in shell form from wild-type dextrals, perhaps implying that the left-handed condition has small deleterious side effects.
• The twisting of the head is apparently necessary, because these are both dextral individuals and so, their genital openings are on the right sides of their heads. Archive 2008-03-01
• In this interpretation, the Troodos ophiolite formed to the east (in its current orientation) of a ridge-transform ridge intersection, in which the transform had a dextral offset and sinistral slip.
• Therefore, an aberrant individual with a tall sinistral shell among tall-shelled dextral conspecifics is more likely to be able to mate and leave offspring than one with a wide sinistral shell among wide-shelled dextral conspecifics. How snails mate: Oxyloma retusa
• a dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer
• The unusual change in shell coiling from dextral to sinistral during their ontogeny represents a character which makes their recognition in the fossil record easy.
• The latter species has a smooth, valvatiform, dextrally coiled teleoconch and a sinistral, anastrophic (coaxial heterostrophic) protoconch.