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Karyotypical characteristics of two allopatric African populations of anhydrobiotic Polypedilum Kieffer, 1912 (Diptera, Chironomidae) originating from Nigeria and Malawi

Abstract. The African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki Hinton, 1951 is the only chironomid able to withstand almost complete desiccation in an ametabolic state known as anhydrobiosis. The karyotypes of two allopatric populations of this anhydrobiotic chironomid, one from Nigeria and another from...

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Autores principales: Petrova, Ninel A., Cornette, Richard, Shimura, Sachiko, Gusev, Oleg A., Pemba, Dylo, Kikawada, Takahiro, Zhirov, Sergey V., Okuda, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26140160
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i2.9104