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Feeding Potential in the Lecithotrophic Larvae of Adalaria Proxima and Tritonia Hombergi: An Evolutionary Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Stephen C. Kempf  and
Christopher D. Todd
Stephen C. Kempf
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Department of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine, Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 8LB and Department of Zoology and Wildlife Science, 101 Cary Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Christopher D. Todd
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Department of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine, Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KYI 6 8LB
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Vance (1973a, b) argued that among the possible range of developmental strategies available to marine invertebrates, only the extremes of obligate planktotrophy and obligate lecithotrophy are evolutionarily stable. Vance's model, relating reproductive 'efficiency' to egg size (in terms of energetic content), predation rate, and prefeeding (lecithotrophic) vs feeding (planktotrophic) larval periods, has been a source of much discussion and debate since its inception (e.g. Underwood, 1974; Vance, 1974; Christiansen & Fenchel, 1979; Obrebski, 1979; Williams, 1980; Jablonski & Lutz, 1983; Strathmann, 1978, 1985; Todd, 1985). Subsequent publications have continued to dwell mainly on potential selective factors and the extremes of larval developmental type (i.e. obligate planktotrophy or obligate non-pelagic lecithotrophy). For the most part, these investigations have ignored questions concerning how a transition from one larval type to another would be accomplished in morphological and functional terms. Nonetheless, the consensus persists that small eggs and planktotrophy are the primitive (or ancestral) condition, and that lecithotrophy is the more advanced evolutionary derivative (see Strathmann, 1978,1985).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , August 1989 , pp. 659 - 682
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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