Skin morphology and cytology in marine eels adapted to different lifestyles

Anatomical Record

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-29

  Fishelson, L ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

comparison; moray eels; skin cytology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EEL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EELS; EPIDERMIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUCUS; REGENERATION; SKIN; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; GORGASIA; GYMNOTHORAX HEPATICUS; HETEROCONGER HALIS; LYCODONTIS; MURAENIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 0029830946     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199609)246:1<15::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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