Five hundred million years to mobility: directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle

Autor: Jens T. Høeg, Benny K. K. Chan, Yue Him Wong, Sing-Pei Yu, John D. Zardus, Jr-Chi Lin, Nathan J. Robinson, Niklas Dreyer, I-Jiung Cheng

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Chan, B K K, Wong, Y H, Robinson, N J, Lin, J-C, Yu, S-P, Dreyer, N, Cheng, I-J, Høeg, J T & Zardus, J D 2021, ' Five hundred million years to mobility : directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle ', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1960, 20211620 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1620

Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became ‘sessile’ over 500 Ma; however, we confirm that the epizoic sea turtle barnacle,

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https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1620