Tardigrades - Are they really miniaturized dwarfs?

Zoologischer Anzeiger

Volumn 240, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 549-555

  Schmidt Rhaesa, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articulata; Ecdysozoa; Miniaturization; Panarthropoda; Phylogeny; Tardigrada

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ARTHROPODA; ECDYSOZOA; ONYCHOPHORA; PANARTHROPODA; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 0035714829     PISSN: 00445231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0044-5231-00066     Document Type: Article

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