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adj. - Of or relating to an external membranous or hardened noncellular investment secreted by the cells of the epidermis or by the outer surface of the body

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  • In the University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory, Professor Joel Levine's team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn't produce certain pheromones, called...
  • However, many mutations could not be recovered by the scoring of the cuticular pattern only.
  • The dorsal conic spine-like structures could be a homology of cuticular spicules of polyplacophorans and aplacophorans.
  • The left portion is lined with a cuticular mucous membrane, and the right portion with a glandular mucous membrane that has in it the glands that secrete the gastric juice.
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