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Brooding in the Chilean Oyster Ostrea chilensis: Unexpected Complexity in the Movements of Brooded Offspring within the Mantle Cavity

Brooding in invertebrates serves to protect embryos from stressful external conditions by retaining progeny inside the female body, effectively reducing the risk of pelagic stages being exposed to predation or other environmental stressors, but with accompanying changes in pallial fluid characterist...

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Autores principales: Mardones-Toledo, Daniela A., Montory, Jaime A., Joyce, Alyssa, Thompson, Raymond J., Diederich, Casey M., Pechenik, Jan A., Mardones, Maria L., Chaparro, Oscar R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25874932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122859