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Waterborne cues from crabs induce thicker skeletons, smaller gonads and size-specific changes in growth rate in sea urchins

Indirect predator-induced effects on growth, morphology and reproduction have been extensively studied in marine invertebrates but usually without consideration of size-specific effects and not at all in post-metamorphic echinoids. Urchins are an unusually good system, in which, to study size effect...

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Autores principales: Selden, Rebecca, Johnson, Amy S., Ellers, Olaf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24489404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-009-1150-0