Bipartite life cycle of coral reef fishes promotes increasing shape disparity of the head skeleton during ontogeny: an example from damselfishes (Pomacentridae).

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Published in BMC Evol Biol on March 30, 2011

Authors

Bruno Frédérich1, Pierre Vandewalle

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratoire de Morphologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Institut de Chimie (B6c), Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium. bruno.frederich@ulg.ac.be

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