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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...
- as
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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called swimmerets) are
primarily swimming legs, and are...
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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...
- the two-segmented
nature of the
antennal flagellum, by the form of the
uropods, and by the
ability to roll into a ball.
Within the
family Armadillidiidae...
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segments total.
While the
uropods of
pillbugs are
relatively quite small,
flipping a pill bug over will
reveal the
small uropod overlapping the pleotelson...
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advanced in crabs. The
telson is no
longer functional in crabs, and the
uropods are absent,
having probably evolved into
small devices for
holding the...
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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...
- the abdomen. They are
called pleopods.
There is one
final pair
called uropods, which, with the telson, form the tail fan. A 2019
molecular clock analysis...
