Unsuspected diversity of Niphargus amphipods in the chemoautotrophic cave ecosystem of Frasassi, central Italy

BACKGROUND: The sulfide-rich Frasassi caves in central Italy contain a rare example of a freshwater ecosystem supported entirely by chemoautotrophy. Niphargus ictus, the sole amphipod species previously reported from this locality, was recently shown to host the first known case of a freshwater chem...

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Autores principales: Flot, Jean-François, Wörheide, Gert, Dattagupta, Sharmishtha
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-171

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-171

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