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Five hundred million years to mobility: directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle

Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became ‘sessile’ over 500 Ma; however, we confirm that the epizoic sea turtle barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria, has evolved the capacity for...

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Autores principales: Chan, Benny K. K., Wong, Yue Him, Robinson, Nathan J., Lin, Jr-Chi, Yu, Sing-Pei, Dreyer, Niklas, Cheng, I-Jiung, Høeg, Jens T., Zardus, John D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8493200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34610769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1620