Photoreceptors in species of the Macrostomida (Plathelminthes): Ultrastructural findings and phylogenetic implications

Zoomorphology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-12

  Sopott Ehlers, Beate ^a   Salvenmoser, Willi ^b   Reiter, Dietmar ^b   Rieger, Reinhard ^b   Ehlers, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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EID: 57249114464     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008496     Document Type: Article

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