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Figure 4. A in Convergent evolution of dark, ultraviolet-absorbing cuticular pigmentation in a new Afro-Oriental Echiniscus brunus species complex (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)
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- 1. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland & Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, Poland & Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland & Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 3. Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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Figure 4. A BFM (top row) and PCM (boưom row) comparison of a specimen of Viridiscus viridianus mounted in Hoyer's medium at 1 min, 20 h and 20 days asser mounting. Note the orange pigmentation dissolving as time passes (arrowheads indicate the remnants of the orange pigment). The same individual is shown in Figures 3 and 7. Scale bar: 50 μm (all photographs are at the same scale).
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Published as part of Dey, Pritam K., Gąsiorek, Piotr & Michalczyk, Łukasz, 2024, Convergent evolution of dark, ultraviolet-absorbing cuticular pigmentation in a new Afro-Oriental Echiniscus brunus species complex (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae), pp. 34-59 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad132, http://zenodo.org/record/10470646
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