Lessons in modularity: the evolutionary ecology of colonial invertebrates

Benthic colonial invertebrates share with higher plants a modular construction and a sessile adult life. Both types of organism show parallel evolutionary responses to common selective forces, but in contrast to the long-established focus on plants, comparable study of colonial invertebrates has dev...

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Main Author: Roger N. Hughes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2005-06-01
Series:Scientia Marina
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Online Access:http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/302