Development and juvenile anatomy of the nemertodermatid Meara stichopi (Bock) Westblad 1949 (Acoelomorpha)

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Børve, Aina ^a   Hejnol, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoelomorpha; Cell lineage; Cleavage; Development; Muscle development; Nemertodermatida; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903671734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-11-50     Document Type: Article

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