Lack of discontinuous gas exchange in a tracheate arthropod, Leiobunum townsendi (Arachnida, Opiliones)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 170-174

  Lighton, John R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas exchange; Opiliones; Respiration; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ARACHNID; GAS EXCHANGE;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; DIPLOPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEIOBUNUM; OPILIONES; PSEUDOSCORPIONES;

EID: 0036278340     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.2002.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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