Internal brooding favours pre-metamorphic chimerism in a non-colonial cnidarian, the sea anemone Urticina felina

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1724, 2011, Pages 3517-3522

  Mercier, Annie ^a   Sun, Zhao ^a   Hamel, Jean François ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b Portugal Cove St Philips   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allorecognition; Chimera; Fusion; Genetic heterogeneity; Marine invertebrate

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ONTOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIACEA; CNIDARIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; URTICINA FELINA;

EID: 80054905883     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0605     Document Type: Article

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