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A cuticular plate at the front of the insect head, forming an upper lip.
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In biology, cuticle or cuticula refers to a more or less tough (but flexible) non-mineral covering of an organism, or part of it.
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cuticula, dim. of cutis, the skin]
(1) A waxy covering on the surface of stems and leaves that acts as an adaptation to prevent desiccation in terrestrial plants.
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tunic In tunicates, a cuticular, cellulose-containing covering of the body secreted by the underlying body wall.
tunicates Chordates that show the three basic chordate characteristics only in the larva.
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an early function is to maintain engrailed expression (DiNardo, 1988; Martinez-Arias, 1988), which regulates Hh expression that affects cuticular patterning (Heemskerk, 1994). 2.
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