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SUBMITTER: Liow LH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771556 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20190723 9
Cope's Rule describes increasing body size in evolutionary lineages through geological time. This pattern has been documented in unitary organisms but does it also apply to module size in colonial organisms? We address this question using 1169 cheilostome bryozoans ranging through the entire 150 million years of their evolutionary history. The temporal pattern evident in cheilostomes as a whole shows no overall change in zooid (module) size. However, individual subclades show size increases: wit ...[more]