Observations on the ultrastructure of the anterior adhesive areas and other anterior gland cells in the monogenean Merizocotyle australensis (Monocotylidae) from the nasal fossae of Himantura fai (Dasyatididae)

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 200-211

  Cribb, Bronwen W ^a   Whittington, Ian D ^a,b   Chisholm, Leslie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Heron Island Research Station   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Attachment; Elasmobranch; Monogenea; Platyhelminth parasite; Secretions

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; PHYSIOLOGY;

2-GROUP; ATTACHMENT; ELASMOBRANCH; GLAND CELLS; MICROVILLI; MONOGENEA; PARASITE-; PLATYHELMINTH PARASITE; ROD-SHAPED; SECRETION;

DUCTS;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTEGUMENT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HIMANTURA FAI; MERIZOCOTYLE AUSTRALENSIS; MONOCOTYLIDAE; MONOGENEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TREMATODA;

EID: 0032144168     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19980801)42:3<200::AID-JEMT4>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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