Influence of different substrates on the evolution of morphology and life-history traits of azooxanthellate solitary corals (Scleractinia: Flabellidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 184-192

  Tokuda, Yuki ^a   Ikeno, Tomoko ^a   Goto, Shin G ^a   Numata, Hideharu ^b   Ezaki, Yoichi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive strategy; Attached; Cnidaria; Diversification; Free living; Mode of life; Molecular phylogeny; Rootlet; Spine

Indexed keywords

COMMON ANCESTRY; CORAL; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SESSILE SPECIES;

ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; FLABELLIDAE; FLABELLUM; JAVANIA; MONOMYCES; PLACOTROCHUS; RHIZOTROCHUS; SCLERACTINIA; TECTURA; TRUNCATOFLABELLUM;

EID: 77955975856     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01479.x     Document Type: Article

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