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A study on the coelomocytes and histology of the marine bryozoan,Watersipora subovoidea
[in Japanese]
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Teruhisa Ishii
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Yasunori Saito
… show colony specificity(Ishii and Saito,1995).In colony specificity of colonial ascidians,blood cells and humoral factors play key roles.Then,we firstly exmined the coelomocytes(=blood cells in ascidiens) of W.subovoidea.There are 4 distinct cell types in this bryozoan;granular cells,granular filopodial cells,vacuolated cells and phagocytes.Among them,only phagocytes had ability of phagocytosis.We also examined the …
Memoirs of the Faculty of Education and Human Studies, Akita University. Natural Science 66, 19-28, 2011-03-00
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