The musculature of three species of gastrotrichs surveyed with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 171-180

  Leasi, Francesca ^a   Rothe, Birgen H ^b   Schmidt Rhaesa, Andreas ^b   Todaro, M Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Evolution; Gastrotricha; Meiofauna; Muscles

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FIELD SURVEY; INTERSTITIAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEIOFAUNA; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ASPIDIOPHORUS; CHAETONOTIDA; CHAETONOTIDAE; CHAETONOTUS; GASTROTRICHA; HALICHAETONOTUS; LEPIDODASYIDAE; LEPIDODERMELLA; MACRODASYIDA; PARADASYS; POLYMERURUS; POLYMERURUS NODICAUDUS; TURBANELLA; TURBANELLIDAE; XENOTRICHULIDAE;

EID: 34047101375     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2006.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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