Predation by invertebrate predators on the colonial rotifer Sinantherina socialis

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 325-335

  Walsh, Elizabeth J ^a   Salazar, Michael ^a   Remirez, Juan ^a   Moldes, Orestes ^a   Wallace, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b RIPON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Damselfly; Daphnia; Dragonfly; Hydra; Notonecta

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ARTHROPODA; COELENTERATA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; EPIPHANES SENTA; FLOSCULARIIDAE; HYDRA; INVERTEBRATA; MONOGONONTA; NOTONECTA; NOTONECTIDAE; PISCES; ROTIFERA; SINANTHERINA SOCIALIS; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 33845395975     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: 17447410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2006.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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