Morphological Similarity and Ecological Overlap in Two Rotifer Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Gabaldón, Carmen ^a   Montero Pau, Javier ^a   Serra, Manuel ^a   Carmona, María José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRACHIONUS MANJAVACAS; BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS; CLEARANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA; SALINITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STARVATION; SYMPATRY;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; ECOSYSTEM; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; ROTIFERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874293306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057087     Document Type: Article

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