Ultrastructural evidence for nutritional exchange between brooding unionid mussels and their glochidia larvae

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 227-236

  Schwartz, Megan L ^a,b   Dimock Jr , Ronald V ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivalvia; Gills; Matrotrophy; Pyganodon; Utterbackia

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; EUKARYOTA; MOLLUSCA; PYGANODON; PYGANODON CATARACTA; UNIONIDAE; UTTERBACKIA; UTTERBACKIA IMBECILLIS;

EID: 0035536850     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2001.tb00033.x     Document Type: Article

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