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 …

The mode of development in marine invertebrates is believed to have consequences for
dispersal, gene flow, geographic range, and speciation and extinction rates. The factors …

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 …

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

Mode of development in marine invertebrates has been largely viewed as a dichotomy
between small eggs that develop into free-living planktotrophic larvae and large eggs that …

Larval shell morphology in fossil and present-day gastropods is often used to infer modes of
larval development and levels of dispersal. Dispersal ability influences not only genetic …

Length of the planktonic larval period can determine dispersal distances of sedentary
benthic animals and thereby influence genetic variation within and among subpopulations …

The fossil record of marine gastropods has been used as evidence to support the operation
of species selection; namely, that species with limited dispersal differentially increase in …

In marine mollusks, planktotrophic and nonplanktotrophic modes of development generally
confer different scales of larval dispersal, which in turn influence species' geographic ranges …

The evolution of arthropod body plans remains an irksome issue for the field of arthropod
systematics. For example, Gould believed it was illusory to use patterns of tagmosis as a …