vertebrate

Preposition: as

• bait: But see above Question 44: Do you agree with the ban on live vertebrates as bait?

Converse of object

• infect: Phylogenetic relationships among a large number of adenoviruses infecting vertebrates from fish to humans are shown in Fig.
• include: In the second year the units become more specialized including marine vertebrates, benthic ecology and phytoplankton and primary production.
• jaw: Of particular significance is the earliest evidence for jawed vertebrates.
• fly: Dynamics of the vortex wakes of swimming and flying vertebrates.
• know: Sure enough, these jawless fishes are the only known vertebrates that lack the alpha/beta divide.

Adjective modifier

• blooded: They are parasites of fish and other cold blooded vertebrates.
• terrestrial: How long do muscle fibers need to be in terrestrial vertebrates?
• fossil: Fossil vertebrates of the Cromer Forest Bed in Norwich Castle Museum Meijer, T. and Preece, R.C. 1996.
• marine: These contain fossil teeth, scales and bones of marine vertebrates which are all very small.
• cold: They are parasites of fish and other cold blooded vertebrates.
• small: Rather limited small vertebrate remains suggest either a more rapid process or the presence of some sort of structure around the pit.

Modifies a noun

• paleontology: It was a most remarkable project, and the book instantly became a valuable contribution to vertebrate paleontology.
• paleontology: As a result I was inspired to do a PhD in vertebrate paleontology, moving across the road to the Museum of Zoology.
• fauna: The vertebrate fauna of a Roman town in Pannonia.
• embryo: We will consider some real data from studies on 2 vertebrate embryos.
• skeleton: Cartilage constitutes a major component of the vertebrate skeleton.
• genome: These measures have proved extremely interesting in their applications to analyzing the evolution of the vertebrate genome.

Noun used with modifier

• land: This is popular, occurring in at least seven groups of land vertebrates.
• non-human: A gazetteer of non-human vertebrate remains from caves in the Yorkshire Dales referenced in caving club journals and allied literature.