Host-Specific Phenotypic Plasticity of the Turtle Barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria: A Widespread Generalist Rather than a Specialist

Turtle barnacles are common epibionts on marine organisms. Chelonibia testudinaria is specific on marine turtles whereas C. patula is a host generalist, but rarely found on turtles. It has been questioned why C. patula, being abundant on a variety of live substrata, is almost absent from turtles. We...

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Autores principales: Cheang, Chi Chiu, Tsang, Ling Ming, Chu, Ka Hou, Cheng, I-Jiunn, Chan, Benny K. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23469208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057592

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23469208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057592

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