Non-systemic metamorphosis in millipedes

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Description: English: Main stages of non-systemic metamorphosis in three millipede species of the order Julida. (A-C) Nopoiulus kochii; (D-F) Blaniulus guttulatus; (G-I) Nemasoma varicorne. A, D and G, last stadium with walking legs on ring VII (asterisk); SEM, latero-ventral view. B, E and H, gonopod primordia; SEM, ventral view. C, F and I, gonopods; SEM, ventral view. Yellow, coxal process; Green, anterior gonopod telopodite; Blue, posterior gonopod telopodite. Anterior to the left, scale bars 200 μm. Date: 22 August 2011. Source: Drago, L., Fusco, G., Garollo, E., & Minelli, A. (2011). Structural aspects of leg-to-gonopod metamorphosis in male helminthomorph millipedes (Diplopoda). Frontiers in zoology, 8(1), 19. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-8-19. Author: Drago, L., Fusco, G., Garollo, E., & Minelli, A.