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- adjective biology That gain sustenance from
plankton
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Others must find and capture food, and are called planktotrophic.
Planktonic larvae 2008
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Sober and Wilson 1998), through to organisms that live together with a social division of reproductive labour (such as social insects), and even higher-level taxonomic groups whose members are largely separated in space and time (such as planktotrophic mollusks, Jablonski 1986,
The Biological Notion of Individual Wilson, Robert A. 2007
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Amongst putative examples of clade selection are the evolution of planktotrophic mollusks in the late Cretaceous (being selected for greater geographic dispersal and so longetivity, Jablonski 1986, 1987), the evolution of larger body size in males (selected via population density and geographic range, Brown and Maurer 1987, 1989), and the evolution of flowering plants (selected via vector-mediated pollen dispersal,
The Biological Notion of Individual Wilson, Robert A. 2007
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