APOSEMATISM AND SYNERGISTIC SELECTION IN MARINE GASTROPODS
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Developmental shifts and species selection in gastropods.
The fossil record of marine gastropods has been used as evidence to support the operation of species selection; namely, that species with limited dispersal differentially increase in numbers because they are more likely to speciate than widely dispersing species. This conclusion is based on a tacit phylogenetic assumption that increases in species with limited dispersal are solely the result of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0014-3820
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb04421.x