Whale barnacles: exaptational access to a forbidden paradise
Of all sessile filtrators, only some species of acorn barnacles managed to permanently settle on whales. Their key exaptation was probably a kind of biochemical cleaning process, which could be modified to penetrate into the host's dead cutis. Anchorage was further increased by coring prongs ou...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2005
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Paleobiology
Year: 2005, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 27-35 |
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