The digestive system and fat body of an early-derivative oribatid mite, Archegozetes longisetosus aoki (Acari: Oribatida, Trhypochthoniidae)

Acarologia

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 149-219

  Alberti, G ^a   Seniczak, A ^b   Seniczak, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

DIgestion; Fat Body; Fine Structure; Finger like Processes; Functional; Ingestion; Intima; Lamellated Bodies; Membrane; Morphology; Peritrophic; Resorption; Spherites

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ALGAE; ARCHEGOZETES LONGISETOSUS; FUNGI; ORIBATIDA; TRHYPOCHTHONIIDAE;

EID: 0242371099     PISSN: 0044586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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