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Geographic variation and mass mortality in the black abalone : the roles of development and ecology

Creator:

Tissot, Brian N. (Brian Nelson)

Abstract:

Studies of geographic variation are central to understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. Geographic variation in the shell of the black abalone (Halioth cracherodii), a marine intertidal gastropod, involves both clinal and local variation along the eastern Pacific coast in the number and size of tremata (=respiratory pores) on the shell....

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Dissertation