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American Zoologist 1977 17(1):121-132; doi:10.1093/icb/17.1.121
© 1977 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Aspects of the Functional Morphology of the Lophophore in Articulate Brachiopods

W. ANN REYNOLDS1 and HELEN M. MCCAMMON2
1Department of Anatomy, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
2U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region Boston, Massachusetts 02203

Histologic studies made on three species of articulate brachiopods provide information on the structural integrity, epithelial specialization and other cellular aspects of the lophophore. Similarities in staining properties of granular inclusions found in the matrix with those found in epithelial modifications of the brachial trough and the bases of the filaments suggest movement between cells within the matrix and the epithelium. The nature of the granular inclusions raises the possibility of intracellular digestion along the lophophore of these brachiopods.


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