Solar powered seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca): Incorporation of photosynthetic units: A key character enhancing radiation?

Evolution in Action: Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 263-282

  Wägele, Heike ^a   Raupach, Michael J ^a   Burghardt, Ingo ^b,c   Grzymbowski, Yvonne ^a   Händeler, Katharina ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12425-9_13     Document Type: Chapter

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