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met·a·mere

 (mĕt′ə-mîr′)
n.
Any of the homologous segments that compose the bodies of certain animals; a somite.
met′a·mer′ic (-mĕr′ĭk, -mîr′-) adj.
met′a·mer′i·cal·ly adv.
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(2011) distinguished two major morphological types of the alimentary tract: (1) a simple tube with a crop and (2) a simple tube flanked laterally with metamerically paired caeca (= gut diverticulae).
Digestive structures in Ordovician trilobites Colpocoryphe and Flexicalymene from the Barrandian area of Czech Republic/Barrandeumi piirkonnas Tsehhi Vabariigis Ordoviitsiumi trilobiitidel Colpocoryphe ja Flexicalymene leitud seedetrakti elemendid
Although we cannot conclude whether all of the centrally derived nerves send fibers to the ONR, metamerically distributing nerves ventral to the mouth seemingly correspond to the posterior nerves and suggest that at least the eighth to tenth nerves do not supply their fibers to the ONR (Fig.
Dynamic modification of oral innervation during metamorphosis in Branchiostoma belcheri, the oriental lancelet
Stripes one to seven are associated with the complex metamerically repeated cleavage pattern in the post-naupliar germ bands of Cherax.
Expression of the engrailed gene reveals nine putative segment-anlagen in the embryonic pleon of the freshwater crayfish cherax destructor (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Decapoda)
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