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Evidence for an Alternative Transport Route for the Use of Vitellogenesis in the Sea-Star Asterias Rubens (L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. J. S. Broertjes
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Chemical Animal Physiology, State University of Utrecht, 8 Padualaan, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
G. Posthuma
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Chemical Animal Physiology, State University of Utrecht, 8 Padualaan, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
P. Den Breejen
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Chemical Animal Physiology, State University of Utrecht, 8 Padualaan, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
P. A. Voogt
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Chemical Animal Physiology, State University of Utrecht, 8 Padualaan, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands

Extract

The inter-organ nutrient transport in echinoderms has presented an interesting but as yet unresolved problem for more than eighty years. During that time two systems have been proposed as candidates for the transporting medium or transport route, namely the coelomic fluid and the haemal system.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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