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Feeding stage and attached Prometheus larva of Symbion pandora

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Description: Fig 1A, B: The feeding stage, attached Prometheus larva and dwarf male of Symbion pandora. Light micrographs. A: Feeding stage with attached Prometheus larva (apl). The closed buccal funnel (bf) is facing upwards. B: Close up of the attached Prometheus larva. Note the two dwarf males (dm1–2) inside the larval body. The rectangle outlines the region of interface between the cuticle of the attached Prometheus larva and that of the feeding stage. Abbreviations: ad adhesive disk, cuP cuticle of the attached Prometheus larva, se host’s seta, tr trunk. Date: 15 April 2015. Source: R. C. Neves & H. Reichert: Microanatomy and Development of the Dwarf Male of Symbion pandora (Phylum Cycliophora): New Insights from Ultrastructural Investigation Based on Serial Section Electron Microscopy. In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2015, e0122364. Author: Ricardo Cardoso Neves & Heinrich Reichert. Permission(Reusing this file): : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 truetrue. This file was published in a Public Library of Science journal. Their website states that the content of all PLOS journals is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (or its previous version depending on the publication date), unless indicated otherwise..

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