Jellyfish Body Plans Provide Allometric Advantages beyond Low Carbon Content
Jellyfish form spectacular blooms throughout the world's oceans. Jellyfish body plans are characterised by high water and low carbon contents which enables them to grow much larger than non-gelatinous animals of equivalent carbon content and to deviate from non-gelatinous pelagic animals when i...
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2013-08-13.
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