Seasonal- and age-dependent changes of the structure and chemical composition of the spherites in the midgut gland of the harvestmen Gyas annulatus (Opiliones)

Micron

Volumn 33, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 647-654

  Lipovšek, Saška ^a   Letofsky Papst, Ilse ^b   Hofer, Ferdinand ^b   Pabst, Maria Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

EELS; EFTEM; Elemental analysis; Gyas annulatus; Midgut gland; Overwintering; Seasonal changes; Spherites

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; SEASON; STOMACH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGANELLES; PROTEOGLYCANS; SEASONS; STOMACH;

OPILIONES;

EID: 0036447545     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-4328(02)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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