Plastic and Heritable Variation in Shell Thickness of the Intertidal Gastropod Nucella lapillus Associated with Risks of Crab Predation and Wave Action, and Sexual Maturation

The intertidal snail Nucella lapillus generally has thicker shells at sites sheltered from wave action, where crabs are abundant and pose a high risk of predation, than at exposed sites where crabs are rare. We studied two populations showing the opposite trend. We reciprocally transplanted snails b...

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Autores principales: Pascoal, Sonia, Carvalho, Gary, Creer, Simon, Mendo, Sonia, Hughes, Roger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23272221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052134

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23272221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052134

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