The epidermal ciliary rootlets of Xenoturbella bocki (Xenoturbellida) revisited: New support for a possible kinship with the Acoelomorpha (Platyhelminthes)

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-270

  Lundin, Kennet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXONEME; EPIDERMIS; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PSEUDOPODIUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACOELOMORPHA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI;

EID: 0031829196     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00440.x     Document Type: Article

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