Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9448691 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Analyses of their relative growth rates from when released from the marsupium until first breeding, showed that amphipods have a faster growth rate than isopods in the field which is consistent with other traits in their rapid development-high fecundity life-history strategy. We conclude that these data support the second hypothesis and that their morphological adaptations to a shredding, high ingestion-rate rapid gut turnover digestive strategy enable them to have a more efficient resource acquisition rate than the slower growing, lower fecundity and slower ingestion-rate longer gut throughput time strategy of most isopods.
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Authors
Natália Dias, Mark Hassall,