Patterns of morphological integration in marine modular organisms: Supra-module organization in branching octocoral colonies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1528, 2003, Pages 2039-2044

  Sánchez, Juan Armando ^a,b   Lasker, Howard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching colonies; Comparative analysis; Modularity; Octocoral; Phenotypic integration; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

COLONY; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTEGRATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; GORGONIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 18744425066     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2471     Document Type: Article

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