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SUBMITTER: Puce S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4990279 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Puce Stefania S Pica Daniela D Schiaparelli Stefano S Negrisolo Enrico E
PloS one 20160818 8
Stylasteridae is a hydroid family including 29 worldwide-distributed genera, all provided with a calcareous skeleton. They are abundant in shallow and deep waters and represent an important component of marine communities. In the present paper, we studied the evolution of ten morphological characters, currently used in stylasterid taxonomy, using a phylogenetic approach. Our results indicate that stylasterid morphology is highly plastic and that many events of independent evolution and reversion ...[more]