Retro fashion: did onychophorans abandon ovoviviparity and revert to laying eggs?
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Description: | Viviparity is so advantageous that it has evolved at least 140 times in the invertebrates, but some Australian and New Zealand onychophorans have gone back, abandoning ovoviviparity to return to eggs. Why? Here we propose that it is an adaptation to climatically inhospitable habitats and low food availability. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Inglés Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/35964 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/35964 |
| Keyword: | evolution of reproductive modes viviparity ovoviviparity velvet worms climate and reproduction evolución de modos de reproducción viviparismo ovoviviparismo gusanos de terciopelo clima reproducción |