Using group-specific PCR to detect predation of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) by wolf spiders (Lycosidae) at a mercury-contaminated site

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 416, Issue , 2012, Pages 225-231

  Northam, Weston T ^a   Allison, Lizabeth A ^a   Cristol, Daniel A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Araneae; Ephemeroptera; Group specific PCR; Mayfly; Mercury; Spider predation

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; GROUP-SPECIFIC PCR; MAYFLY; SPIDER PREDATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; MERCURY (METAL); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SOIL TESTING;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

MERCURY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIOACCUMULATION; DNA; ELECTROKINESIS; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAYFLY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; SONGBIRD; SPIDER;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPHEMEROPTERA; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FLY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LYCOSIDAE; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; SPIDER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INSECTS; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPIDERS;

SOUTH RIVER [VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ARANEAE; AVES; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; LYCOSIDAE;

EID: 84856208776     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.083     Document Type: Article

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