The diversity of digestive systems in tropical geophagous earthworms

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 189-195

  Lattaud, C ^a   Locati, S ^a   Mora, P ^b   Rouland, C ^b   Lavelle, P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Earthworms; Glucosidic digestive enzymes; In vitro intestinal tissue culture; Ingested microflora; Millsonia anomala; Polypheretima elongata; Pontoscolex corethrurus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000404505     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(98)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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