A Novel Mode of Colony Formation in a Hydrozoan through Fusion of Sexually Generated Individuals

Coloniality, as displayed by most hydrozoans, is thought to confer a size advantage in substrate-limited benthic marine environments and affects nearly every aspect of a species' ecology and evolution [1,2]. Hydrozoan colonies normally develop through asexual budding of polyps that remain inter...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current biology 2012-05, Vol.22 (9), p.825-829
Hauptverfasser:	Nawrocki, Annalise M., Cartwright, Paulyn
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	adults Animals ecology genes Hydra Hydrozoa - physiology larynx Molecular Sequence Data neck phylogeny progeny sexual reproduction skeleton
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