Mastax morphology under SEM and its usefulness in reconstructing rotifer phylogeny & systematics

作者: G. I. Markevich , L. A. Kutikova

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0465-1_34

关键词: ZoologyRotiferMastaxSystematicsBiologyPhylogeneticsMorphology (biology)

摘要: Scanning electron micrographs have been prepared of mastaxes more than 120 species rotifers. The basic directions the evolutionary transformation mastax sclerites and their significance for reconstructing rotifer phylogeny are illustrated.