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Setae on the legs of krill and other small crustaceans help them to gather phytoplankton. It captures them and allows them to be eaten. Setae on the integument of insects are unicellular, meaning that each is formed from a single epidermal cell of a type called a trichogen, literally meaning "bristle generator". They are at first hollow and in ...
Sternum: 7. prosternum, 8. mesosternum, 9. metasternum. acrostical (a) bristles adjacent to the median longitudinal axis of the scutum. They may be irregular or align in two or more rows. The number of rows, the number of setae in each row, the size and the thickness are significant. In many groups, the acrostical setae are replaced by setulae ...
Pyrrolizidine alkaloid sequestration refers to the sequestration of one such class of poisonous compounds. seta A stiff chitinous or sclerotised hair or bristle. Also chaeta, cheta setaceous. being like or having the nature of a seta or of setae; setose; setose bearing, or covered in setae. setula Diminutive of seta. A small chitinous hair or ...
Six of the eight classes contain only one or two genera each. Polytrichopsida includes 23 genera, and Bryopsida includes the majority of moss diversity with over 95% of moss species belonging to this class. The Sphagnopsida, the peat-mosses, comprise the two living genera Ambuchanania and Sphagnum, as well as fossil taxa.
In most species of bees, the scopa is simply a dense mass of elongated, often branched, hairs (or setae) on the hind leg. When present on the hind legs, the modified hairs are, at a minimum, on the tibia, but some bees also have modified hairs on the femur and/or trochanter.
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The justices, who heard arguments in the case on Nov. 6, dismissed Facebook's appeal of a lower court's ruling that allowed a 2018 class action led by Amalgamated Bank to proceed.
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