Neural Markers Reveal a One-Segmented Head in Tardigrades (Water Bears)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mayer, Georg ^a   Kauschke, Susann ^a   Rüdiger, Jan ^a   Stevenson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; SEROTONIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUPERIPATOIDES ROWELLI; GANGLION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MACROBIOTUS HARMSWORTHI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOMATOGASTRIC GANGLION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; TARDIGRADA; WORM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84874855538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059090     Document Type: Article

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