… Thus, during the last 30 years, it has become clear that many of the morphological characters
… extremely high genetic diversity (nucleic acid diversity of 0.20 in the US population was …

… attention on some of the evolutionary changes that underlie larval diversity. Indirect development
involves a morphological stage interme diate between embryo and juvenile (ie, a larva) …

… of its gene flow, genetic diversity and population dynamics. … from monokaryotic isolates
showed morphological changes … has been estimated from three for Crucibulum vulgare to 288 …

… The high-conic, smooth-shelled tropical eastern Pacific calyptraeid Crucibulum lignarium
(Broderip 1834) has a morphology consistent with the shell-dwelling habit (see below), but …

… dilatata in three sites of the Western Mediterranean Sea. We applied morphological and …
of the Crepipatella dilatata complex using Crucibulum lignarium as an outgroup. Specimens …

… the morphological features we can study using the previous literature is limited to only the
third … In more recent morphological papers, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to …

… ) in 40 populations of the Balkan hydrobiids, Radomaniola and Grossuana. Despite … variation,
there are no morphological differences between Radomaniola and Grossuana or between …

… Similar suites of morphological and behavioral defenses appear to have arisen in several
taxa suggesting that larvae encounter predators with similar feeding modes. Polychaete and …

… Here, we document velar morphology and function in calyptraeids with 4 different 47 …
Crucibulum quiriquinae and Crepidula coquimbensis all hatch as crawling juveniles, yet only 50 …

… These constraints are offsetted by a panel of morphological, physiological, and behavioral
adaptations allowing an active search, penetration, infection, and development in a suitable …