Ecdysteroids in adult females of a “walking worm”: Euperipatoides leuckartii (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-30

  Hoffmann, Klaus H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecdysone; Euperipatoides leuckartii; Evolution; HPLC; Integument; Onychophora; Ovary; Radioimmunoassay

Indexed keywords

EUPERIPATOIDES LEUCKARTII;

EID: 0030964767     PISSN: 07924259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07924259.1997.9672601     Document Type: Article

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