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Uropods are
posterior appendages found on a wide
variety of crustaceans. They
typically have
functions in locomotion.
Uropods are
often defined as the...
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Uropods, in immunology,
refer to the hind part of
polarized cells during cell
migration that
stabilize and move the cell.
Polarized leukocytes move using...
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gills and propulsion), and the last
segment bears a pair of
biramous uropods (posterior limbs). In males, the
second pair of pleopods, and sometimes...
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terminates in the
telson flanked by two
pairs of
appendages called the
uropods. The
uropods allow the
shrimp to swim backward, and
function like rudders, steering...
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pleopods second pleopods third pleopods fourth pleopods fifth pleopods uropods Pleopods (also
called swimmerets) are
primarily swimming legs, and are...
- pleopods, and ends in a telson,
which bears the ****, and is
often flanked by
uropods to form a tail fan. The
number and
variety of
appendages in
different crustaceans...
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protrusion of the
lateral keel
pointing towards the
telson center. The
uropods are
biramous (branched into two) and
preserved in two of the
known Ursquilla...
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flare out
slightly over the legs. This "flare" is
called the epimeron. The
uropods, antenna-like
structures at the back of the specimen, are
flattened out...
- crustaceans.
Valviferans are distinguished, however, by the flat, valve-like
uropods which hinge laterally and fold
inward beneath the rear part of
their bodies...
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Other characteristics include six-jointed
antennal peduncle, the
styliform uropods (a
character shared with some
other isopod groups), the
fusion of pleonites...
