Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
peritrophic membrane gland — (Order Stomatopoda): Pair of small glands, one extending along each side of posterior (pyloric) stomach; opens into midgut and secretes membrane (peritrophic membrane) surrounding food material coming from digestive glands [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
peritrophic membrane — (ARTHROPODA) An extracellular sheath in which chitin is present, separating the apical surface of the mid gut that protects the gut cells from mechanical damage caused by abrasive food particles; usually loosening from the mid gut and remaining… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
peritrophic membrane — a delicate, cylindrical sheath of chitin continuously secreted from the posterior edge of the foregut of insects and millipedes that ingest solid food, which surrounds the food as it passes through the midgut … Medical dictionary
peritrophic membrane — |perə.|träfik noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary peri + trophic : a tubular chitinous sheath inside the midgut of many insects that is continuously secreted at the anterior end of the midgut … Useful english dictionary
Carbohydrate-binding module — CBM 1 three dimensional structures of three engineered cellulose binding domains of cellobiohydrolase i from trichoderma reesei, nmr, 18 structures Identifiers Symbol CBM 1 … Wikipedia
Plasmodium falciparum biology — Taxobox color = khaki name = Plasmodium falciparum image width = 240px image caption = Blood smear of Plasmodium falciparum regnum = Protista phylum = Apicomplexa classis = Aconoidasida ordo = Haemosporida familia = Plasmodiidae genus =… … Wikipedia
Onychophora — Temporal range: 40–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Velvet worm — Taxobox name = Onychophora fossil range = Cambrian – Recent image width = 250px image caption = Velvet worm regnum = Animalia phylum = Onychophora phylum authority = Grube, 1853 subdivision ranks = Extant families subdivision = Peripatidae… … Wikipedia
Insect physiology — includes the physiology and biochemistry of insect organ systems. Although diverse, insects are quite similar in overall design, internally and externally. The insect is made up of three main body regions (tagmata), the head, thorax and abdomen.… … Wikipedia
Laminarin — (also known as laminaran) is a storage glucan (a polysaccharide of glucose) of brown algae. It is created by photosynthesis and is made up of β(1→3) glucan with β(1→6) linkages. It is a linear polysaccharide, with a β(1→3):β(1→6) ratio of 3:1.… … Wikipedia
