Cellular components and tunic architecture of the solitary ascidian Styela canopus (Stolidobranchiata, Styelidae)

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 352-359

  Di Bella, Maria Antonietta ^a   Cassarà, Georgia ^a   Russo, Domenica ^b   De Leo, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Institute of Advanced Diagnostic Methodologies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Comparative morphology; Phylogeny; Styela canopus; Tunic; Tunicate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CUTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBER; GRANULOCYTE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CANOPUS; STYELA; STYELA CANOPUS; STYELIDAE;

EID: 0031827210     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-8166(98)80048-7     Document Type: Article

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