Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and spermatozoa in Bradynectes sterreri and remarks on sperm cells in Haplopharynx rostratus and Paromalostomum fusculum: Phylogenetic implications for the Macrostomorpha (Plathelminthes)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-115

  Sopott Ehlers, Beate ^a   Ehlers, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPLOPHARYNX ROSTRATUS; MACROSTOMIDA; MACROSTOMORPHA; MACROSTOMUM; PAROMALOSTOMUM FUSCULUM; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 0033440696     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004350050085     Document Type: Article

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