A study of the diversity and geographical variation in numbers of leg-bearing segments in centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) in north-western Europe

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 899-909

  Simaiakis, Stylianos M ^a   Iorio, Etienne ^b   Djursvoll, Per ^c   Meidell, Bjarne A ^c   Andersson, Göran ^d   Kirkendall, Lawrence R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Geophilus; Intraspecific variation; Latitudinal cline; Modal value; Pachymerium; Scandinavia; Segment number; Strigamia

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT SELECTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SCANDINAVIA;

BRACHYGEOPHILUS TRUNCORUM; CHILOPODA; GEOPHILOMORPHA; GEOPHILUS; PACHYMERIUM; PACHYMERIUM FERRUGINEUM; STRIGAMIA; STRIGAMIA MARITIMA;

EID: 77954755531     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01467.x     Document Type: Article

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