Incidence of deformities and variation in shape of mentum and wing of Chironomus columbiensis (Diptera, Chironomidae) as tools to assess aquatic contamination

• Milton Leoncio Montaño-Campaz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milton Leoncio Montaño-Campaz, Lucimar Gomes-Dias, Beatriz Edilma Toro Restrepo, Víctor Hugo García-Merchán

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Grupo de investigación BIONAT (Biodiversidad y Recursos Naturales), Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2389-4206

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• Lucimar Gomes-Dias ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milton Leoncio Montaño-Campaz, Lucimar Gomes-Dias, Beatriz Edilma Toro Restrepo, Víctor Hugo García-Merchán

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Grupo de investigación BIONAT (Biodiversidad y Recursos Naturales), Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

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• Beatriz Edilma Toro Restrepo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milton Leoncio Montaño-Campaz, Lucimar Gomes-Dias, Beatriz Edilma Toro Restrepo, Víctor Hugo García-Merchán

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Grupo de investigación BIONAT (Biodiversidad y Recursos Naturales), Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

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• Víctor Hugo García-Merchán

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milton Leoncio Montaño-Campaz, Lucimar Gomes-Dias, Beatriz Edilma Toro Restrepo, Víctor Hugo García-Merchán

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victorhgarcia@uniquindio.edu.co

  Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Evolución, Ecología y Conservación (EECO), Programa de Biología, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Quindío, Colombia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3553-1632

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