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integumentary system

[in¦teg·yə¦men·trē ′sis·təm]
(anatomy)
A system encompassing the integument and its derivatives.
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According to Bartoli (1974), a gymnophallid cercaria can be identified by the following characteristics: Distome, pharyngeate larva, tegument spinose, eyespots absent, stylet lacking, excretory vesicle thin-walled V or Y shaped, furcated tail, developing in marine bivalves.
Since the GFP-labeled protein, VP16, is a tegument protein, the moving particles we observed must include at least tegument, either as whole virus, tegument plus capsid, or simply as tegument aggregates.
Tegument covered with abundant translucent setae and granules similar to those on carapace; granules become larger and more conspicuous distally; depressions and cuticular pits absent.
Each treatment consisted of 25 unwrapped seeds (manually scarified, with the removal of endocarp and tegument).
Tegument covered with spines, except spineless area ventrally anterior and posterior to ventral sucker.
(2013), the fermentation process promotes temperature rise from 2 to 3[degrees]C, heating the seeds, promoting not only the degradation of the sarcotesta by the action of the microorganisms present in the process, but also can contribute to the elimination of possible dormancies caused by the impermeability of the tegument.
inopina collected from Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica in Brazil by Pinto et al., 2005 differs in general body shape and size, presence of esophagus, shape of ovary and testes, body tegument, extension of vitellaria and uterus.
Glucose is rapidly absorbed across the tegument and is the main source of energy for both adult and larval cestodes.
Primary cell cultures of different shrimp tissues (tegument, gill, intestine, and hemocytes) were prepared by an enzymatic disaggregation procedure modified from Fuerst et al.
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