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The endpoint observed was incidence of morphological deformities in chironomid ("non-biting midge") larvae.

To remove any confounding external stimuli, we performed laboratory observations on swarms of Chironomus riparius, a non-biting midge species that consistently and predictably forms mating swarms over visual cues15 (see Fig. 1).

Clusters obtained by OrthoMCL as described above were split into two groups, according to phylogenetic relatedness: C. riparius and C. piger as non-biting midges and A. aegypti and C. quinquefasciatus as biting midges.

Non-biting midges (Chironomidae, Diptera) are widely distributed aquatic insects.

The same region was also sequenced from non-biting midges of the genera Atrichopogon, Brachypogon, Dasyhelea, Forcipomyia and Serromyia.

We show that the investigated non-biting midges are positively polarotactic and like many other aquatic insects their females are attracted to horizontally polarized light.

By a wide margin, the most abundant mosquito-size insects in these habitats are non-biting midges (Chironomidae and Chaoboridae) [14], known locally as "lake flies".

The non-biting midges Chironomus riparius and C. piger, interbreeding in the laboratory, have been shown to coexist frequently despite of their close relatedness, similar ecology and high morphological similarity.

Here, larval transcriptome sequences obtained by next-generation-sequencing are used to address these issues in a morphologically cryptic sister species pair of non-biting midges (Chironomus riparius and C. piger).

An association between V. cholerae and non-biting chironomid midges (Diptera; Chironomidae) egg masses, which live in fresh water, has been described [ 21] and such midges may be important in the ecology of cholera.

The number of grazing jaw movements (biting and non-biting) was counted automatically using an IGER Behaviour Recorder.