Scale morphology of Prochilodus lineatus with emphasis on the scale epithelium

The fish body is entirely covered by a thin, smooth and glandular epidermis, closely attached to the scales inserted on the dermis. The descriptive work on this tissue dates to twenty or thirty years ago, bears very little photographic record and does not focus on the scale epithelium, despite the f...

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Main Authors: RMS. Alves, BF. Pereira, DL. Pitol, JA. Senhorini, RCG. Alcântara-Rocha, FH. Caetano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842013000300637&lng=en&tlng=en