Application of analytical electron microscopic methods to investigate the function of spherites in the midgut of the larval antlion Euroleon nostras (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 397-407

  Lipovšek, Saška ^a   Letofsky Papst, Ilse ^b   Hofer, Ferdinand ^b   Pabst, Maria Anna ^c   Devetak, Dušan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Digestive system; Insecta; Larval instars; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

ANALYTICAL ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROSCOPIES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; INSECTA; LARVAL INSTAR; LIFE-SCIENCES; MICROSCOPIC METHODS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EUROLEON NOSTRAS; INSECTA; MYRMELEONTIDAE; NEUROPTERA;

EID: 84858867243     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.21069     Document Type: Article

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