Why run and hide when you can divide? Evidence for larval cloning and reduced larval size as an adaptive inducible defense

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1301-1312

  Vaughn, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ECHINODERM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANKTIVORE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANIMALIA; CLYPEASTEROIDA; DENDRASTER EXCENTRICUS; ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 77952424180     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1410-z     Document Type: Article

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