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Science 3 May 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3566, pp. 497 - 498
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3566.497
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Antarctic Micrometazoa: Fresh-Water Species in the McMurdo Sound Area

Ellsworth C. Dougherty 1 and Larry G. Harris 1

1 Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley 4

The multicellular microfauna in fresh-water bodies of Ross Island and the nearby continental coast of Victoria Land is strikingly impoverished with respect to major groups. Yet there are thriving populations belonging to the Rotifera, Nematoda, Tardigrada, and Turbellaria.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Microbiology of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
N. H. Horowitz, R. E. Cameron, and J. S. Hubbard (1972)
Science 176, 242-245
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