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SUBMITTER: Whalen CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083262 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180718 1883
The colonization of the water column is among the most important transformations in the evolution of animal life and global ecosystems. The Devonian nekton revolution has been identified as a major macroevolutionary event signifying the rapid occupation of the water column by independent radiations of swimming animals. Using new data, an expanded taxonomic coverage, sample standardization and increased ecological resolution, we analysed patterns of nektonization during the Palaeozoic. We find th ...[more]