Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology 607dead shells that occasionally produce variations in shellshape.nest odor (ARTHRO: Insecta) In social insects, the distinctiveodor of a nest that enables its inhabitants to distinguish thenest from those belonging to other colonies or the surroundingenvironment; hive aura/odor. see colony odor.nest parasitism (ARTHRO: Insecta) In Isoptera, one species oftermite that lives on the carton walls of the nest of the hostspecies.nest robbing see cleptobiosisNETU virus Referring to NEmatode-transmitted, TUbularshapedviruses. see NEPO virus.nettle cells see nematocystsneuraforamen n. [Gr. neuron, nerve; L. foramen, hole] (AR-THRO: Insecta) The foramen through which the nerve cordpasses when it is separated from the occipital foramen.neural a. [Gr. neuron, nerve] Pertaining to the nerves or nervoussystem of an organism.neural arc Simple receptor-effector nerve circuit.neural canal (ARTHRO: Insecta) The incomplete canal on thefloor of the meso- and metathorax, formed by fusion ofapodemes; functioning in the reception and protection ofthe ventral nerve cord and for attachment of muscles.neural groove (ARTHRO: Insecta) The median ventral groove,extending the entire length of the embryo, between theneural ridges.neural lamella The noncellular outer covering of the centralnervous system consisting of mucopolysaccharides andmucoproteins with collagen-type fibrils in the outer part ofthis layer.neural ridges (ARTHRO: Insecta) In embryology, the two longitudinalventral ridges that contain the lateral cords of theneuroblasts.neuration see venationneurilemma see Schwann cell