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Flypapers for Coral and Other Planktonic Larvae

Author(s) -

Daniel E. Morse

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

bioscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.761

H-Index - 209

eISSN - 1525-3244

pISSN - 0006-3568

DOI - 10.2307/1312832

Subject(s) - larva , plankton , coral , biology , settling , reproduction , ecology , oceanography , zoology , environmental science , geology , environmental engineering

any animals in the sea reproduce to yield vast numbers of minute, weakly swimming larvae that remain arrested in development while they are dispersed in the plankton. In many species, the larvae settle randomly and then continue to develop, but in other species the larvae emerge from developmental arrest only after settling in a particular microhabitat that is suitable for their postmetamorphic growth and survival to reproduction. What cues might indicate to such larvae that they have reached the appropriate environment? We and other investi-

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