Remarkable Shifts in Offspring Provisioning during Gestation in a Live-Bearing Cnidarian.

Animals display diverse means of producing and provisioning offspring, from eggs to embryos and juveniles. While external development predominates, many forms of embryonic incubation have evolved, including placentation in mammals and a number of understudied variants in basal metazoans that could h...

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Main Authors: Annie Mercier, Zhao Sun, Christopher C Parrish, Jean-François Hamel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4841577?pdf=render