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An exploration of autofluorescence in tardigrades (phylum Tardigrada)
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- 1. Department of Biology, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC 28778, USA
- 2. Department of Chemistry and Physics, Warren Wilson College, NC 28778, USA
- 3. Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 61-712 Poznań, Poland
- 4. Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA
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Bartels, Paul J., Coffey, David C., Pineau, Mathilde, Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Nelson, Diane R. (2024): An exploration of autofluorescence in tardigrades (phylum Tardigrada). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (1): 200-217, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad045, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad045
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