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THE present evidence suggests that the crustaceans can be divided in two groups according to the mechanism of their heart beat: branchiopods which have a myogenic heart; the other crustaceans with their neurogenic hearts, thus resembling the heart of other arthropods1–4. The branchiopods so far investigated include cladocerans (Daphnia3,5–9, Simocephalus3) and anostracans (Artemia3–4, Eubranchipus4). So far, nothing was known about the physiology of the heart in Conchostraca and Notostraca3.
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LAGERSPETZ, K. Heart Mechanism in a Conchostracan, Limnadia lenticularis (L.). Nature 194, 992 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194992a0
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