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

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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Main Authors: Sebastian Kruppert, Lisa Deussen, Linda C Weiss, Martin Horstmann, Jonas O Wolff, Thomas Kleinteich, Stanislav N Gorb, Ralph Tollrian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214013

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214013

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