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| Provedor de dados: |
Rev. Bras. entomol.
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Evidence of phenotypic plasticity of larvae of Simulium subpallidum Lutz in different streams from the Brazilian Cerrado
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| Autores: |
Figueiró,Ronaldo
Calvet,Anderson
Gil-Azevedo,Leonardo Henrique
Docile,Tatiana Nascimento
Monteiro,Ricardo Ferreira
Maia-Herzog,Marilza
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| Data: |
2015-03-01
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Microhabitat associations
Neotropical region
Simuliidae
Water current range
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| Resumo: |
In this paper, the overall morphological differences between populations of Simulium subpallidumLutz, 1909 are studied. Several studies found in the literature point to a relationship between the labral fans and body size and the habitat where blackfly larvae occur. However, other characteristics potentially related to the microhabitat, such as abdominal hook circlet morphology, which is used for larvae to fix themselves in the substratum, and thoracic prolegs morphology, which help larvae move in the substratum, were analyzed in three different populations of S. subpallidum, one of which occupied a faster flow. The results suggest phenotypic plasticity in S. subpallidum and a tendency toward larger structures in faster flows.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262015000100028
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
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| Relação: |
10.1016/j.rbe.2015.02.003
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia v.59 n.1 2015
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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