Mode of development (MOD) is a key feature that influences the rate and direction of 40
evolution of marine invertebrates. Although many groups include species with different …

Despite considerable theoretical and empirical work on the population genetic effects of
mode of development in benthic marine invertebrates, it is unclear what factors generate …

Developmental mode varies widely in most animal phyla. These differences in
developmental strategy exert a profound influence on the ecology and evolution of closely …

Extent of larval growth among marine invertebrates has potentially profound implications for
performance by benthic recruits because body size influences many biological processes …

Evolutionary transitions between different modes of development in marine invertebrates are
thought to be biased toward the loss of feeding larvae. Because the morphology of feeding …

Post-Paleozoic life history transitions in mollusks and echinoderms have been biased
toward switches from feeding, planktonic larvae (planktotrophic), to one of the non-feeding …

The planktonic larvae of marine invertebrates are diverse in their nutritional modes,
suggesting that evolutionary transitions in larval nutritional mode have been frequent. One …

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(2018).© Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198786962.003. 0004 that act on …

Mode of development has been inferred from protoconch morphology in more than thirty
families of shelled gastropods from the deep sea. Planktotrophic development is …

Deuterostome animals exhibit widely divergent body plans. Echinoderms have either radial
or bilateral symmetry, hemichordates include bilateral enteropneust worms and colonial …