prototrochal

English

Etymology

proto- +‎ trochal

Adjective

prototrochal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a prototroch
    • 2015 July 11, Néva P Meyer et al., “Nervous system development in lecithotrophic larval and juvenile stages of the annelid Capitella teleta”, in Frontiers in Zoology‎, volume 12, →DOI:
      It remains to be seen if this pattern of prototrochal innervation is well conserved since only a few neurotransmitter subtypes and their synaptic targets ( e.g., muscle cell versus ciliary band cell) have been examined in more than one species of annelid [ 57 ].
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