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Independent and adaptive evolution of phenotypic novelties driven by coral symbiosis in barnacle larvae.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2022
Dreyer Niklas, Tsai Pei-Che, Olesen Jørgen, Kolbasov Gregory A, Høeg Jens T, Chan Benny K K
Abstract excerpt
The invasion of novel habitats is recognized as a major promotor of adaptive trait evolution in animals. We tested whether similar ecological niches entail independent and adaptive evolution of key phenotypic structures related to larval host invasion in distantly related taxa. We use disparately related clades of coral barnacles as our model system (Acrothoracica: Berndtia and Thoracicalcarea: Pyrgomatidae). We...
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