Ultrastructure of reproductive system of female Litomosoides chagasfilhoi Moraes-Neto, Lanfredi and de Souza, 1997 (Nematoda: Filarioidea)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1135-1142

  Cardenas M Q ^a,b   Lanfredi, R M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; LITOMOSOIDES CHAGASFILHOI; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FILARIOIDEA; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUSCLE CELLS; OOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA;

FILARIOIDEA; LITOMOSOIDES CHAGASFILHOI; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 42049115252     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-0881-z     Document Type: Article

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