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The recruitment sweepstakes has many winners: genetic evidence from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2002
Flowers Jonathan M, Schroeter Stephen C, Burton Ronald S
Abstract excerpt
As a consequence of free spawning in the unpredictable nearshore environment, marine species with large fecundities and high pre-reproductive mortality may be subject to extreme variance in reproductive success. If the unpredictability of the ocean results in only a small subset of the adult population contributing to each larval cohort, then reproduction may be viewed as a sweepstakes, with chance events...
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