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Why do snails have hairs? A Bayesian inference of character evolution
BACKGROUND: Costly structures need to represent an adaptive advantage in order to be maintained over evolutionary times. Contrary to many other conspicuous shell ornamentations of gastropods, the haired shells of several Stylommatophoran land snails still lack a convincing adaptive explanation. In t...
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1310604/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16271138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-5-59 |