Evidence for Frozen-Niche Variation in a cosmopolitan parthenogenetic soil mite species (Acari, Oribatida)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Von Saltzwedel, Helge ^a   Maraun, Mark ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a   Schaefer, Ina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOREST; FROZEN NICHE VARIATION; GENERAL PURPOSE GENOTYPE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; HYPOTHESIS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPIELLA NOVA; ORIBATIDA; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL;

ACARI; ORIBATIDA;

SOIL;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; MITES; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL;

EID: 84912103107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113268     Document Type: Article

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