Ultrastructure and potential taxonomic importance of euspermatozoa and paraspermatozoa in the volutid gastropods Zidona dufresnei and Provocator mirabilis (Caenogastropoda, Mollusca)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-173

  Giménez, Juliana ^a,b   Healy, John M ^c,d   Hermida, Gladys N ^a   Nostro, Fabiana Lo ^e   Penchaszadeh, Pablo E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Euspermatozoa; Gastropoda; Paraspermatozoa; Sperm ultrastructure; Volutidae

Indexed keywords

CAENOGASTROPODA; GASTROPODA; MIRABILIS; MOLLUSCA; NEOGASTROPODA; VOLUTIDAE; ZIDONA DUFRESNEI;

EID: 45849085388     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-008-0060-x     Document Type: Article

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