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Zooplankters’ nightmare: The fast and efficient catching basket of larval phantom midges (Diptera: Chaoborus)

Filter feeding zooplankton are a crucial component of limnic food webs. Copepods and cladocerans are important prey organisms for first-level predators like the common and abundant larvae of phantom midges (Chaoborus sp.). The latter possess a complex catching basket built of head appendages special...

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Autores principales: Kruppert, Sebastian, Deussen, Lisa, Weiss, Linda C., Horstmann, Martin, Wolff, Jonas O., Kleinteich, Thomas, Gorb, Stanislav N., Tollrian, Ralph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6430396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30901351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214013