Apodemes associated with limbs support serial homology of claws and jaws in onychophora (velvet worms)

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 274, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1180-1190

  De Sena Oliveira, Ivo ^a   Mayer, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Feeding appendages; Musculature; Peripatidae; Peripatopsidae; Walking appendages

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; FEEDING APPENDAGES; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOOF AND CLAW; INVERTEBRATE; JAW; LIMB; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE; PERIPATIDAE; PERIPATOPSIDAE; WALKING APPENDAGES;

ARTHROPODS; FEEDING APPENDAGES; MUSCULATURE; PERIPATIDAE; PERIPATOPSIDAE; WALKING APPENDAGES;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTREMITIES; HOOF AND CLAW; INVERTEBRATES; JAW;

ARTHROPODA; ONYCHOPHORA; PERIPATIDAE; PERIPATOPSIDAE;

EID: 84883743235     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: 10974687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20171     Document Type: Article

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