Faking giants: The evolution of high prey clearance rates in jellyfishes

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6049, 2011, Pages 1627-1629

  Acuña, José Luis ^a   López Urrutia, Ángel ^b   Colin, Sean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^c ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLEARANCE RATE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DOMINANCE; GROWTH RATE; JELLYFISH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIFESTYLE; OPTIMIZATION; PREY CAPTURE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RESPIRATION; SWIMMING; VISUAL CUE;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING RATE; JELLYFISH; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

PISCES; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 80052926129     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1205134     Document Type: Article

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