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Subesophageal

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Sub`e`so`phag´e`al
a.1.(Zool.) Situated beneath the esophagus.
Subesophageal ganglion
(Zool.) a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
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Inside the ants, most of the cercaria encyst in the walls of the abdomen, but one or two migrate to the head and encyst in the subesophageal ganglion, a part of the brain.
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That JR synthesis by the CA is controlled by the brain and/or subesophageal ganglion is well established for many insects, and both neuronal and non-Effect of exogenous JH upon appearance of Vg polypeptide, YP 2a, in hemolymph of decapitated females.
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The missing links, report Friesen and Brodfuehrer, are the Tr1 cells, whose somas or bodies are located in the relatively large subesophageal ganglion in the head region and whose axons extend down the length of the animal.
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