What's the difference between endopodite and meropodite?
Endopodite
Definition:
(n.) The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.
Example Sentences:
(1) While an experimentally generated discontinuity between the lateral margin of the exopodite and the medial margin of the endopodite (outer-to-outer junction) triggers intercalation of supernumerary rami, a discontinuity of pattern between the medial margin of the exopodite and the lateral margin of the endopodite (inner-to-inner junction) is stable despite the absence of intervening intersegmental membrane.
(2) The branchial warts on the endopodites of the gills are covered with goblet-shaped cuticular appendages, whose internal structure shows them to be chemoreceptors.
(3) The endopodite of the male swimmeret has an accessory lobe covered with short "bristly spines" (serrate setae).
(4) The most caudal limb in crayfish, the uropod, has two rami, the exopodite and the endopodite.
Meropodite
Definition:
(n.) The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activity of the motor axons supplying the muscles of the meropodite can be also influenced by a variety of natural stimuli applied to other appendages.
(2) Recordings from the meropodite extensor muscle indicated that the tonic extensor motoneuron was primarily responsible for M-C joint extension.
(3) Animals used different methods of pressing the bar; the most common was extension of the claw, predominantly at the meropodite-carpopodite joint.
(4) The proximal accessory flexor (PAF) of the myochordotonal organ (MCO) in the meropodite of crayfish walking legs contains two populations of muscle fibers which are distinguishable by their diameters.
(5) The motor program and role of the meropodite sensory organs (the chordotonal organs MC-1, MC-2 and the myochordotonal organ MCO) in extension of the merocarpodite (M-C) joint of the claw was examined during an antennal-evoked defense response.
(6) Inactivation of individual meropodite sensory organs did not alter the tonic motoneuron response.