The ultrastructure of book lung development in the bark scorpion <it>Centruroides gracilis </it>(Scorpiones: Buthidae)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Near the end of the nineteenth century the hypothesis was presented for the homology of book lungs in arachnids and book gills in the horseshoe crab. Early studies with the light microscope showed that book gill lamellae are formed b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
| Online Access: | http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/8/1/18 |