Two decades of colonization of the urban environment of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, by Drosophila paulistorum (Diptera, Drosophilidae)

Iheringia - Serie Zoologia

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-338

  Garcia, Ana Cristina L ^a   Valiati, Victor Hugo ^b   Gottschalk, Marco S ^a   Rohde, Cláudia ^a,c   Valente, Vera Lúcia Da S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Colonization; Drosophila paulistorum; Urban ecology; Zaprionus indianus

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA PAULISTORUM; DROSOPHILIDAE; ZAPRIONUS INDIANUS;

EID: 59349111604     PISSN: 00734721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0073-47212008000300007     Document Type: Article

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