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The karyotype and morphology of the Palaearctic chironomid, Chironomus wulkeri Filinkova et Belyanina 1993, inhabiting the Baikal coast were studied. The banding patterns of chromosomal arms B, C, and D are presented for the first time. The karyotype and chromosome polymorphism of Ch. wulkeri from the Baikal population have no significant difference from those in northern Sweden and the Polar Ural populations. One heterozygous inversion in arm A was found in 38% of larvae. A comparative morphological analysis of 46 quantitative characters of larvae from Baikal region and the Polar Urals showed that they did not differ from each other. However, there are some differences in the width of the ventromental plates and height of the mentum.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Proviz, 2006, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 85, No. 12, pp. 1495–1502.
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Proviz, V.I. Karyotype and morphology of Chironomus wulkeri (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Lake Baikal region. Entmol. Rev. 86, 1097–1104 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873806090107
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