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Sclerites is a verb used in the scientific context to describe the hardening or formation of sclerites in organisms, such as insects or marine creatures
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The haptoral sclerites of these species are redrawn.
Juvenile shells appear not to incorporate sclerites.
Ventral sclerites are sometimes called laterosternites.
Lomasulcachites is a further genus known from sclerites alone.
Such sclerites differ considerably between unrelated insects.
The tissues are stiffened by sclerites.
Seven sclerites distinctly visible on the back of a pregnant scorpion.
Mesosoma is marked with wing sclerites and dorsal sutures.
The sclerites at the base of the coxa are yellow or orange.
It is reconstructed with no sclerites.
Similarly the ventral sclerites of a body segment are referred to as sternites.
There are traces of thin ribs between the sclerites and the skin.
It is believed these sclerites were probably for protection from predators.
Associated with the leg itself there are various sclerites around its base.
Isolated sclerites are also common in the small carbonaceous fossil record.
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This springlike property is a due to elastic sclerites that span across the joints.
Spines and sclerites were inserted directly into the body wall.
The expansion of the haematochodae then causes the various sclerites to brace with one another.
The typical sclerites of winged queens and apparent wing scars are present.
Two other specimens of Diraphora bellicostata have been found attached to dorsal sclerites.
Sclerites are small calcareous bodies that can help support soft corals.
Halkieriids had three types of sclerites and two one-piece shells.
Some sclerites are mineralized with calcium phosphate rather than calcium carbonate.
Embedded in the coenenchyme are minute capstan-shaped and rod-shaped calcified sclerites.
Fossil sclerites of Theelia are found worldwide.
The foot is also unusual, being armored at the sides with iron-mineralised sclerites.
Sclerites of Drepanochites can be distinguished based on their aspect ratio.
The presence of thorn-shaped sclerites arranged as three per segment is diagnostic.
The nymph stages are black or very dark brown, with red integument between the sclerites.
In Orthrozanclus the sclerites became unmineralized and in Wiwaxia the shells were lost.
The skeleton of G. ventalina contains hard structures known as sclerites which are unpalatable to predators.
The isolated sclerites of Microdictyon are known from other Lower Cambrian deposits.
The epigastric scutum is weakly sclerotized, surrounding the pedicel, not protruding, small lateral sclerites absent.
Accessory sclerites ( black ) are present in normal clamps but absent in simplified clamps.
The auxiliary region containing the axillary sclerites has, in general, the form of a scalene triangle.
Separate sclerites on the lateral aspects of body segments, the pleura, are called pleurites.
The backward-projecting siculate sclerites may have improved its grip by preventing it from slipping backwards.
Dorsal sclerites of a body segment, often plate-like, are known as tergites.
The clypeus is one of the sclerites that make up the " face " of an arthropod.
The sclerites and spines were not mineralized, but made of a tough organic ( carbon-based ) biopolymer.
Orthrozanclus ′ sclerites are very similar to those of its Burgess Shale contemporary Wiwaxia.
Microdictyon sclerites appear to have moulted ; one sclerite seems to have been preserved during ecdysis . [ 1 ].
