Giant Higgins-larvae with paedogenetic reproduction from the deep sea of the Angola Basin - Evidence for a new life cycle and for abyssal gigantism in Loricifera?

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 59-75

  Gad, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abyssal gigantism; Angola Basin; Deep sea meiofauna; DIVA 1; Higgins larvae; Life cycles; Loricifera; Meteor Cruise M 48 1; Paedogenesis

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOFAUNA; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANGOLA BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

LORICIFERA; PLICILORICIDAE;

EID: 13244288761     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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