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The genetics of colony form and function in Caribbean Acropora corals

BACKGROUND: Colonial reef-building corals have evolved a broad spectrum of colony morphologies based on coordinated asexual reproduction of polyps on a secreted calcium carbonate skeleton. Though cnidarians have been shown to possess and use similar developmental genes to bilaterians during larval d...

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Autores principales: Hemond, Elizabeth M, Kaluziak, Stefan T, Vollmer, Steven V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25519925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-1133