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chaeta

NOUN
  1. a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

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  • They contained numerous sigmoid earthworm chaetae. Archive 2008-09-01
  • The Polychaeta lack a clitellum and have parapodia, paddle-like appendages with numerous bristles or chaetae.
  • They contained numerous sigmoid earthworm chaetae. Archive 2008-09-01
  • As the door opened, the much darker and slicker oligochaeta slithered into the lepidoptera home. Caterpillars in love.
  • For example, chaetal sacks are one of the few ectodermal features of polychaetes that regularly express engrailed, and chaetae are the primary indurated elements in the ectoderm.
  • In this respect, as indeed in their microstructure, the sclerites of Wiwaxia are fundamentally more comparable to polychaete chaetae.
  • The microscopic structure of the setae is identical to that of the chaetae of polychaete worms.
  • Such differential preservation accords with the relative histologies of the two structures, polychaete chaetae being inherently tougher and more recalcitrant than the body-wall cuticle.
  • Likewise, the relative recalcitrance of various non-mineralizing tissues such as algal cyst walls, graptolite periderm, polychaete chaetae and arthropod cuticles contributes to their enhanced preservation potential.
  • Microchaetae are twisted and bent, and micro- and macrochaetae have abnormally deep and irregular grooves.
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