marginal adhesive zone

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NAME:

  marginal adhesive zone

DEFINITON:

  Zone present along the lateral dorsoventral boundary that sits just underneath the animal, in contact with substrates. It is comprised of bunches of adhesion gland cells whose terminal pores form pore rosettes through the dorsal ventral boundary epidermis.This region of is devoid of rhabdites.

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TERM ID:

  PLANA:0002054

ABOUT THIS TERM:

marginal adhesive zone

  ↳is a anatomical compartment

  ↳existence overlaps juvenile, asexual adult and adult hermaphrodite

  → adhesive papilla contained in marginal adhesive zone

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