Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

538Maggenti and Gardnerleading to the destruction of the female by the larvae or juveniles;eclosion intrauterine.matrifilial a. [L. mater, mother; filia, daughter] (ARTHRO: Insecta)In Apis, having colonies made up of mothers anddaughters.matrix n.; pl. matrices [L. mater, mother] 1. That which givesform, origin or foundation to something enclosed or embeddedin it. 2. (NEMATA: Secernentea) The gelatinous substancesecreted by some female nematodes into whicheggs are deposited to form an egg mass. 3. (PLATY) InCestoda and Trematoda, a living interface of interactingphotoplasmic layer; part of the syncytium of the tegument.4. (PORIF) The non-cellular ground material of a sponge inwhich the cellular elements are dispersed.matrix glands (NEMATA: Secernentea) An excretory cell ormodified rectal glands that secrete the gelatinous matrixthrough the anus or excretory pore and into which eggsmaybe imbedded.matrix layer (NEMATA) Historically, a cuticular stratum ofspongy material between the fibrillar layer and the boundarylayer.matrone n. [L. mater, mother] (ARTHRO: Insecta) Macromolecularcomponents (proteins) contained in the seminalfluid of some male Culicidae that inhibits further inseminationof the female.maturation n. [L. maturus, ripe] The act or process pertainingto the developmental steps leading to reproducing adults.maturation divisions A series of nuclear divisions in the formationof the gametes in which the chromosome number,through meiosis is reduced from diploid to haploid.maturation feeding (ARTHRO: Insecta) Feeding required bysome insects before their gonads can mature to produceeggs.maturation zone In males of many invertebrates, that part ofthe genital follicle below the germarium in which eachspermatocyte undergoes the two meiotic divisions to producespermatids. see transformation zones.mature region see exozone