a back-plate of an arthropod or other similar animal
tergite in American English
(ˈtɜːrdʒait)
noun
the dorsal sclerite of an abdominal segment of an insect
Word origin
[1880–85; terg(um) + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: highball, interface, irredentist, jackpot, quotation mark-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
Examples of 'tergite' in a sentence
tergite
Dorsally the antennular and antennal segments each bear a well-developed tergite.
Haug Carolin, Sallam Wafaa S, Maas Andreas, Waloszek Dieter, Kutschera Verena, HaugJoachim T 2012, 'Tagmatization in Stomatopoda – reconsidering functional units of modern-day mantisshrimps (Verunipeltata, Hoplocarida) and implications for the interpretation of fossils',Frontiers in Zoologyhttp://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/9/1/31. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These findings show that genetic variation may affect multiple steps in pathways involved in tergite development and melanization.
Lauren M Dembeck, Wen Huang, Michael M Magwire, Faye Lawrence, Richard F Lyman, TrudyF C Mackay 2015, 'Genetic Architecture of Abdominal Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster.', PLoS Geneticshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4416719?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We found significant genetic variation in the proportion of melanization and high broad-sense heritabilities for each tergite.
Lauren M Dembeck, Wen Huang, Michael M Magwire, Faye Lawrence, Richard F Lyman, TrudyF C Mackay 2015, 'Genetic Architecture of Abdominal Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster.', PLoS Geneticshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4416719?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)