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Reproductive Isolation and Ecological Niche Partition among Larvae of the Morphologically Cryptic Sister Species Chironomus riparius and C. piger

BACKGROUND: One of the central issues in ecology is the question what allows sympatric occurrence of closely related species in the same general area? The non-biting midges Chironomus riparius and C. piger, interbreeding in the laboratory, have been shown to coexist frequently despite of their close...

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Autores principales: Pfenninger, Markus, Nowak, Carsten
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2364647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18478074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002157

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