Ultrastructure of the genital organs in the interstitial syllid Petitia amphophthalma (Annelida, Polychaeta)

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 201-211

  Bührmann, Carola ^a   Westheide, Wilfried ^a   Purschke, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; POLYCHAETA; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030482997     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1996.tb01264.x     Document Type: Article

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