Examples of spiny

• Madagascar’s most unusual forests are the spiny forests. 

• For acouchies, spiny rats and marsupials, live-trapping was the main capture method.

• The principal input to these circuits are thalamic afferents that synapse on excitatory cells with spiny dendrites.

• The plant is spiny, yet lacks preserved anatomy, and the single fertile specimen is not well enough preserved to demonstrate the exact arrangement of sporangia.

• Therefore, selecting islands that only support spiny rats allows for population-level comparisons without having to untangle confounding interactions with other small-mammal species within complex communities.

• The cell had a very densely branched dendritic tree with somewhat thin, very spiny dendrites.

• Each spiny rat's faecal sample represented a single observation.

• As a result, the original perennial vegetation has been replaced by low densities of annuals and unpalatable spiny species.