How To Use Dextral In A Sentence
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Dextral slip was not responsible for opening most of the rift basins in Thailand.
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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
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It is interesting to speculate why most screw threads are dextral and only a relatively small number are sinistral threads.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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a dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer
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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.
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The latter species has a smooth, valvatiform, dextrally coiled teleoconch and a sinistral, anastrophic (coaxial heterostrophic) protoconch.
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Commonly there is a partitioning of sinistral and dextral criteria on alternate horizons, but horizons occur where both senses coexist.
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Check that picture: Ms Saites has an extraordinarily well-developed dextral sternocleido mastoideus.
"When you walk into my house, you've just walked into a squirrel cage."
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According to the phylogeny of these snakes cited in the paper, the ancestral snakes had symmetric dentition, which suggests that the unequal teeth numbers on the snake's jaws is an adaptation to preying on dextral snails.
Evolution of jaw asymmetry in snail-eating snakes
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dextral individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye
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The patient had open fractures of shin bones, dextral pleuropneumonia (mild case), foreign bodies in chest cavity and chest.
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But at one time, handedness (twist direction of the shell) was equally distributed within some snail species that have become predominantly dextral or, in a few species, predominantly sinistral.
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It indicated that normal faulting processes induced from the shear of dextral strike-slip faults are active in the historically subsiding Tainan basin.
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From the shape of Macluritid opercula, we know that Macluritids are dextral shells with a depressed (sunken or downward pointing) spire, not left-handed shells with a normal elevated one.
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The Murzinka-Adui Metamorphic Complex to the SE of the Salda Complex is separated from the latter by the Petrokamensk Arc and the Sisert dextral strike-slip fault.
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In fact, Aleksandrowski et al proposed that the complex was originally contiguous with the Northern Phyllite Zone in Germany and that dextral strike-slip fault movement translated this region southeastward to its present position.
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There are dextral species, sinistral species, and a variable species (P. suturalis-see below) all within the same genus.
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There is no trend from dextrality to sinistrality, but rather large clades characterized by one form or the other, sometimes with large-ish subclades of the complementary type.
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An unrolled parchment map of the Dextral Mountains lay on a low table between them, held open by a decanter of ardent spirits, a silver bootjack, a heavy jeweled dagger, and a candlestick.
Conqueror's Moon
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The preference for dextral threads certainly goes back to the unrecorded past.
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Could it still mate with a dextral individual of its own species?
How snails mate: Oxyloma retusa
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Dextral individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye.
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It is commonly assumed that the Stanovoy sinistral shear zone and the Sakhalin-Hokkaido dextral shear zone in NE Asia are two conjugate strike-slip faults related to the India-Eurasia collision.
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In the northern Musgrave Block the Petermann Orogeny generated large-scale east-west-trending shear zones that accommodated dextral strike-slip and north- and south-directed thrusting.
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So the spiral of the operculum of a dextral (right-handed) snail is invariably counterclockwise, while that of a sinistral shell is the opposite.
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Zhang noted that both sinistral and dextral Pa and Pb elements differed entirely.
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Handedness is known to affect patterns of mating in gastropods, making it likely that the establishment of sinistrality in dextral lineages is associated with sexual selection.
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In late Paleogene, the collision between the Indian and the Eurasian plates led to oblique compression and dextral strike-slipping in SW Yunnan, inducing the transpressional basin.
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Nevertheless, sinistral and dextral Pb elements are virtually mirror images, that is, they are more alike than the corresponding elements in L. variabilis.
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Some longitudinal faults display a second generation of slickensides due to a dextral reactivation that locally modifies the geometry of the fault network.
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Such circles always rotate in a clockwise direction, because the genital openings of dextral slugs are on the right sides of their heads.
Limax maximus
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Although no evidence for discrete dextral structures has been found in the Neptune Range, such a structure or structures could lie unexposed along the Roderick Valley or outside of the mountains and nunataks of the Neptune Range.
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a dextral flatfish lies with the right eye uppermost
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The main fracture of the western margin fault zone of the South China Sea is originated from the Mesozoic basement fault, continuously developed into dextral strike-slip fault zone in Cenozoic.
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In plan view, several specimens show minor changes in the generally linear orientation with either a sinistral or a dextral turn.