Morphological examination of the resting egg structure of 3 cladoceran species [Ceriodaphnia quadrangula (O. F. Müller, 1785), Daphnia longispina (O. F. Müller, 1776), and D. Magna Straus, 1820]

Turkish Journal of Zoology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 131-135

  Kaya, Murat ^a   Erdoǧan, Sevil ^a,b  

^a AKSARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Color; Resting egg; Scanning electron microscopy; Shape; Size

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CRUSTACEAN; EGG; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892504900     PISSN: 13000179     EISSN: 13036114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1302-47     Document Type: Article

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