Nerve cells of Xenoturbella bocki (phylum uncertain) and Harrimania kupfferi (Enteropneusta) are positively immunoreactive to antibodies raised against echinoderm neuropeptides

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1519-1524

  Stach, Thomas ^a,b   Dupont, Samuel ^b   Israelson, Olle ^c   Fauville, Geraldine ^b   Nakano, Hiroaki ^b   Kånneby, Tobias ^b   Thorndyke, Mike ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ECHINODERM; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; HARRIMANIA KUPFFERI; HEMICHORDATA; XENOTURBELLA; XENOTURBELLA BOCKI;

EID: 27744590578     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405012725     Document Type: Article

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