Introduction to tardigrade systematics

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  • Fujimoto Shinta
    Research Center for Marine Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University

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  • クマムシ類（緩歩動物門）の系統分類学入門

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<p>Tardigrades are microscopic invertebrates comprising Panarthropoda with two other phyla, Arthropoda and Onychophora. More than one thousand tardigrade species are known worldwide from marine, freshwater, and limno-terrestrial environments. To facilitate beginners interested in tardigrade systematics, the collection methods for these three environments, the specimen preparation methods for light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, the DNA extraction procedures, and the recent advances in the systematics of the four orders belonging to the two classes, Eutardigrada (Apochela and Parachela) and Heterotardigrada (Arthrotardigrada and Echiniscoidea), are reviewed. The present status of the Japanese tardigrade fauna is also mentioned in brief.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390289225019147392
  • NII Article ID
    130008080782
  • DOI
    10.19004/taxa.51.0_1
  • ISSN
    21897298
    13422367
  • Text Lang
    ja
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    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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