Evolution and dynamics of branching colonial form in marine modular cnidarians: Gorgonian octocorals

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 530-531, Issue , 2004, Pages 283-290

  Sánchez, Juan Armando ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Colonial organisms; Heterochrony

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROORGANISMS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY;

COLONIAL ORGANIZATION; MODULAR ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTI-BRANCHED ARBORESCENT NETWORKS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

COLONIAL ORGANISM; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; CANDELABRUM; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA;

EID: 12444270137     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-2684-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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