Form and function of the feeding apparatus in Eutardigrada (Tardigrada)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-148

  Guidetti, Roberto ^a   Altiero, Tiziana ^a   Marchioro, Trevor ^a   Amadè, Luca Sarzi ^a   Avdonina, Alexandra M ^b   Bertolani, Roberto ^a   Rebecchi, Lorena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Buccal pharyngeal apparatus; Calcium carbonate; Evolution; Foregut; Molting; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EUTARDIGRADA; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84860991372     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-012-0149-0     Document Type: Article

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