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Matsushita, F; Miyawaki, A; Mikoshiba, K (16 February 2000). "Vomeroglandin/CRP-Ductin is strongly expressed in the glands associated with the mouse vomeronasal organ: identification and characterization of mouse vomeroglandin".
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the mouth and anal openings are sealed and neural receptors around the head retracted. The alae is more pronounced than at any other stage and remains exposed to the external environment. Triggers for exiting the
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De Giorgi, C.; De Luca, F.; Di Vito, M.; Lamberti, F. (20 February 1997). "Modulation of expression at the level of splicing of cut-1 RNA in the infective second-stage juvenile of the plant parasitic nematode
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domain proteins (CUT-1, CUT-3, CUT-5). The ZP domain had been termed ‘the sequence in search of a function’ and has been given the functional role of matrix assembly and also putatively, functions in
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or an individual crease found on an individual ridge. The term ‘ala’ is rarely used in describing the alae and scientific journals use the term ‘alae’ both singularly and in the plural.
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Ristoratore, F; Cermola, M; Nola, M; Bazzicalupo, P; Favre, R (July 1994). "Ultrastructural immuno-localization of CUT-1 and CUT-2 antigenic sites in the cuticles of the nematode
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together for strengthening it should also be interpreted as a matrix separating the cuticle thereby exposing itself to the external environment. The alae is formed during an
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for months and until the right signals indicating conditions outside the host are favorable for egg survival, it will then trigger resumption of development. During the
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stage. This was statistically related with a high degree of significance indicating that the alae may specifically function as a receptor site.
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Lewis, E; Hunter, SJ; Tetley, L; Nunes, CP; Bazzicalupo, P; Devaney, E (25 June 1999). "cut-1-like genes are present in the filarial nematodes,
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stage nematode has been genetically associated to a target molecule found in the environment that this nematode could be using for exiting the
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residues. The alae is a crease, that by the cross linking process causes radial shrinking of the seam cell secreted
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