Recently added articles from The Biological Bulletin:
Phenotypic plasticity and sexual dimorphism in size at post-juvenile metamorphosis: common-garden rearing of an intertidal gastropod with determinate growth.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction It has long been recognized that marine gastropods show remarkable geographic variations in shell morphology (Vermeij, 1972; Reid, 1996). For taxonomists, the question of whether these variations reflect genetic differences is important because genetically driven ...
Parameterization and prediction of community interaction models using stable-state assumptions and computational techniques: an example from the high rocky intertidal.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction A community is in a stable state when each population in the community shows no net change in size and no changes occur in intra- or inter-specific interactions (Lewontin, 1969; Sutherland, 1974; May, 1977). the theory that all ecological systems will, if ...
Effect of temperature on the settlement choice and photophysiology of larvae from the reef coral Stylophora pistillata.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction High diversity and relatively high productivity are classic characteristics of tropical coral reefs (Hatcher, 1997; Paulay, 1997), yet these features are being eroded by declining coral cover and impaired ecosystem functionality (Bellwood et al., 2004). Although ...
Patterns of fluorescent protein expression in scleractinian corals.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Fluorescence of living corals has been recognized for many years (Catala, 1959; Burns et al., 1967; Kawaguti, 1969; Schlichter et al., 1986; Mazel, 1995; Hoegh-Guldberg and Jones, 1999; Zawada and Jaffe, 2003). It has been discovered that the ...
Sperm polymorphism within the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis: divergence between Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Current theory on variation in sperm morphology focuses on male-female co-evolution and male-male competition. Sperm competition has emerged as an important selective force in shaping sperm quality in snakes (Tourmente et al., 2006), mammals (Gomendio et al., 2006), ...