Rotifers: Exquisite metazoans

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 660-667

  Wallace, Robert Lee ^a  

^a RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAZOA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0036625860     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.3.660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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