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How Plastic Can Phenotypic Plasticity Be? The Branching Coral Stylophora pistillata as a Model System

Phenotypic plasticity enables multicellular organisms to adjust morphologies and various life history traits to variable environmental challenges. Here, we elucidate fixed and plastic architectural rules for colony astogeny in multiple types of colonial ramets, propagated by cutting from genets of t...

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Autores principales: Shaish, Lee, Abelson, Avigdor, Rinkevich, Baruch
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17653271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000644