Stylopoma
Aggregate Trait Evolvability and Macroevolution in Two Sister Species of the Bryozoan Stylopoma
November 27, 2022Leventhal, S., Jamison-Todd, S., and Simpson, C., 2022. Aggregate Trait Evolvability and Macroevolution in Two Sister Species of the Bryozoan Stylopoma, Evolutionary Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s11692-022-09588-8 pdf The study of trait evolution in modular animals is more complicated than that in solitary animals, because a single genotype of a modular colony can...
How colonial animals evolve.
September 18, 2019Simpson, Carl, Amalia Herrera-Cubilla, and Jeremy BC Jackson. “How colonial animals evolve.” Science Advances 6, no. 2 (2020): eaaw9530. The evolution of modular colonial animals such as reef corals and bryozoans is enigmatic because of the ability for modules to proliferate asexually as whole colonies reproduce sexually. This reproductive duality...