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Speciation versus phenotypic plasticity in coral inhabiting barnacles: Darwin's observations in an ecological context.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Sept 1999
Mokady O, Loya Y, Achituv Y, Geffen E, Graur D, Rozenblatt S, Brickner I
Abstract excerpt
Speciation and phenotypic plasticity are two extreme strategic modes enabling a given taxon to populate a broad ecological niche. One of the organismal models which stimulated Darwin's ideas on speciation was the Cirripedia (barnacles), to which he dedicated a large monograph. In several cases, including the coral-inhabiting barnacle genera Savignium and Cantellius (formerly Pyrgoma and Creusia, respectively),...
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