Structural and ultrastructural analysis of the gills in the bacterial-bearing species Thyasira falklandica (Bivalvia, Mollusca)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 153-162

  Passos, Flávio Dias ^a   De Lima Curi Meserani, Georgeana ^a   Gros, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Laboratoire de Biologie Marine ^*  (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

Bivalvia; SEM; Symbiosis; TEM; Thyasiridae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; EUKARYOTA; MOLLUSCA; SULFUR-OXIDIZING SYMBIONTS; THYASIRA; THYASIRIDAE;

EID: 34848879442     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-007-0034-4     Document Type: Article

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