Review of the ultrastructure of the nematode body cuticle and its phylogenetic interpretation

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 465-510

  Decraemer, Wilfrida ^a,e   Karanastasi, Eirini ^b   Brown, Derek ^c   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,d  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Homology; Homoplasy; Nematoda; Phylogeny; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CUTICLE; HOMOPLASY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0141483143     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102006115     Document Type: Review

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