Unique patterns of longitudinal body-wall musculature in the Acoela (Plathelminthes): The ventral musculature of Convolutriloba longifissura

Zoomorphology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 87-94

  Gschwentner, Robert ^a   Mueller, Johann ^a   Ladurner, Peter ^a   Rieger, Reinhard ^a   Tyler, Seth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoelomorpha; Muscle; Regeneration; Turbellaria

Indexed keywords

ACOELA; ACOELOMORPHA; ANIMALIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 0037910341     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-003-0074-3     Document Type: Article

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