Going solo: discovery of the first parthenogenetic gordiid (Nematomorpha: Gordiida). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Despite the severe fitness costs associated with sexual reproduction, its persistence and pervasiveness among multicellular organisms testifies to its intrinsic, short-term advantages.
Ben Hanelt +2 more
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Evidence on Night Movements of Macroinvertebrates to Macrophytes in a Pampean Stream [PDF]
, 2014 Nocturnal invertebrate abundance peaks in lotic systems are usually associated to drift, however, diel migrations other than drift may be important in slow-flowing systems.
Ferreiro, Nicolas Andres
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Species distribution models (SDMs) have conventionally been used for evaluating the distribution of individual species, but they can also be used, through comparing different SDMs, to evaluate the geographic similarity between taxa.
Mattia De Vivo, Jen‐Pan Huang
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Functional trait dataset of benthic macroinvertebrates in South Korean streams
Scientific Data, 2023 Functional traits are the result of evolution and adaptation, providing important ecological insights into how organisms interact with their environment.
Sagar Adhurya +3 more
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Biodiversity of aquatic macrobenthoses and the first record of the Horsetail worms (Nematomorpha: Gordiidae) in Marbor River - Isfahan Province [PDF]
بومشناسی آبزیان, 2022 In an investigation of the effects of the effluent of fish farms on the water quality of the Marbor River in Isfahan province based on biological indicators, some cases of infection of macrobenthos with horsehair worms (Nematomorpha: Gordiidae) were ...
Manoochehr Nasri, Hasan Torabi Pudeh
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A new millipede-parasitizing horsehair worm, Gordius chiashanus sp. nov., at medium altitudes in Taiwan (Nematomorpha, Gordiida) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Gordius chiashanus sp. nov., a newly described horsehair worm that parasitizes the Spirobolus millipede, is one of the three described horsehair worm species in Taiwan. It is morphologically similar to G.
Ming-Chung Chiu +5 more
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ZooKeys, 2017 Three horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) are recorded from Nagaland, India. The first species is Chordodes combiareolatus, which was recently described from Nagaland. The second is Chordodes cf.
Arun K. Yadav +2 more
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Trophic Transfer of Arsenic from an Aquatic Insect to Terrestrial Insect Predators. [PDF]
, 2013 The movement of energy and nutrients from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems can be substantial, and emergent aquatic insects can serve as biovectors not only for nutrients, but also for contaminants present in the aquatic environment.
Mogren, Christina L +3 more
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Composition, structure and seasonal dynamics of macrozoobenthos in the Temska and Visočica Rivers (Serbia) [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2005 We investigated macroozobenthos communities in the Temska and Visočica Rivers at 10 localities during the summer and autumn of 2001. In 46 samplings of quantitative and 10 of qualitative analysis, 101 taxa from 17 groups of macrozoobenthos are identified.
Živić Ivana +2 more
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A new species of Gordius (Phylum Nematomorpha) from terrestrial habitats in North America [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 Freshwater hairworms (class Gordiida) are members of the phylum Nematomorpha that use terrestrial arthropods as definitive hosts but reside as free-living adult worms in rivers, lakes, or streams.
Christina Anaya +3 more
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