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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 559secta) The anal angle <strong>of</strong> a wing.metagynous a. [Gr. meta, after; gyne, female] (ANN: Oligochaeta)Having the ovaries only in segment xiii or a homoeoticsegment.metagyny see protandrymetakinesis n. [Gr. meta, after; kinesis, movement] Separation<strong>of</strong> chromatids during anaphase.metamale n. [Gr. meta, change <strong>of</strong>; L. mas, male] (ARTHRO:Insecta) A male Drosophila with three (3) sets <strong>of</strong> autosomesand one X-chromosome.metamere n. [Gr. meta, after; meros, part] One or more <strong>of</strong> aseries <strong>of</strong> homologous parts <strong>of</strong> many animals; a merosome;a somite. metameric a.metameric sac see osmeteriummetamerism n. [Gr. meta, after; meros, part] Segmentalrepetition <strong>of</strong> homologous body parts; metameres; metasomes.metameron n. [Gr. meta, after; meros, upper thigh] (ARTHRO:Insecta) In Diptera, the meron <strong>of</strong> the metathorax; a verticalsclerite above the hindcoxa. see mesomeron, meron.metameros n. [Gr. meta, after; meros, part] (ARTHRO: Insecta)In Lepidoptera, the combined sixth to eighth abdominalsegments.metamorphosis n.; pl. -ses [Gr. meta, change <strong>of</strong>; morphe,form] A marked change in form or structure an animal undergoesfrom one growth stage to another; also applies tothe actual process <strong>of</strong> changing from larval to adult form.see anamorphosis, epimorphosis, hypermetamorphosis.metanauplius n. [Gr. meta, after; nauplios, shellfish] (AR-THRO: Crustacea) One to several larval stages subsequentto the first (nauplius) larva; characterized by increasingsize and the appearance <strong>of</strong> additional appendages.metandry n. [Gr. meta, after; aner, male] (ANN) Possessingonly the posterior pair <strong>of</strong> testes; in earthworms, testes restrictedto segment xi. metandric a. see proandry,holandry.

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