The duct connecting Malpighian tubules and gut: An ultrastructural and comparative analysis in various Ephemeroptera nymphs (Pterygota)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-106

  Gaino, Elda ^a   Rebora, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CAENIDAE; CAENIS LUCTUOSA; CHOROTERPES; ECDYONURUS; ECDYONURUS VENOSUS; EPHEMERELLA; EPHEMERELLA IGNITA; EPHEMERELLIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEPTAGENIIDAE; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; MALPIGHIA; PTERYGOTA;

EID: 0034365846     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004350000027     Document Type: Article

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