Postembryonic development of hard jaws (
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Diego Fontaneto; Giulio Melone
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The presence of hard jaws (trophi), with species-specific shape and size, is a taxonomic feature of Rotifera, a group of microscopic metazoans. Since trophi are used to discriminate among species, it is important to know whether these structures change in taxonomically important ways during postembr