Reproductive isolation and ecological niche partition among larvae of the morphologically cryptic sister species Chironomus riparius and C. piger

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Pfenninger, Markus ^a   Nowak, Carsten ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRITE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE FLOW; HAPLOTYPE; INSECT GENETICS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRECIPITATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SISTER GROUP; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SUMMER; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOLOGY; HAPLOTYPES; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47749097570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002157     Document Type: Article

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