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TitleOxidus gracilis gonopod development.tiff
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Description
Description: English: Trunk rings 6-8 of Oxidus gracilis during developmental stadia III-VIII. All male specimens except for the one in A, whose sex is undetermined because of the lack of sexual dimorphism at the corresponding developmental stadium. Ventral views, SEM. (A) Stadium III. (B) Stadium IV. (C) Stadium V. (D) Stadium VI. (E) Stadium VII. (F) Stadium VIII. Asterisk, trunk ring 7; s, spiracles associated with the eighth pair of appendages; arrowheads, gonopod primordia at their first appearance; arrows, gonopods. Anterior to the left, scale bars 200 μm. Date: 22 August 2011. Source: Drago, L., Fusco, G., Garollo, E., & Minelli, A. (2011). Structural aspects of leg-to-gonopod metamorphosis in male helminthomorph millipedes (Diplopoda). Frontiers in zoology, 8(1), 19. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-8-19. Author: Drago, L., Fusco, G., Garollo, E., & Minelli, A.
creatorDrago, L., Fusco, G., Garollo, E., & Minelli, A.
source<a href='http://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-8-19'>Drago, L., Fusco, G., Garollo, E., & Minelli, A. (2011). Structural aspects of leg-to-gonopod metamorphosis in male helminthomorph millipedes (Diplopoda). Frontiers in zoology, 8(1), 19. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-8-19</a>
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