The symbiotic relationship of a chironomid with its ephemeropteran host in an Arizona mountain stream

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 426-438

  Jacobsen, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MAYFLY; SYMBIOSIS;

UNITED STATES;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHOROTERPES; DIPTERA; HEPTAGENIIDAE; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; LEUCROCUTA; NANOCLADIUS; THRAULODES;

EID: 0032232698     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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