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Life cycle evolution: was the eumetazoan ancestor a holopelagic, planktotrophic gastraea?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2013
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Title
Life cycle evolution: was the eumetazoan ancestor a holopelagic, planktotrophic gastraea?
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-13-171
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Authors

Claus Nielsen

Abstract

Two theories for the origin of animal life cycles with planktotrophic larvae are now discussed seriously: The terminal addition theory proposes a holopelagic, planktotrophic gastraea as the ancestor of the eumetazoans with addition of benthic adult stages and retention of the planktotrophic stages as larvae, i.e. the ancestral life cycles were indirect. The intercalation theory now proposes a benthic, deposit-feeding gastraea as the bilaterian ancestor with a direct development, and with planktotrophic larvae evolving independently in numerous lineages through specializations of juveniles.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
Chile 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 123 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 24%
Researcher 31 24%
Student > Bachelor 18 14%
Student > Master 12 9%
Other 8 6%
Other 15 12%
Unknown 15 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 67 52%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 20 15%
Environmental Science 7 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 2%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 22 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 December 2023.
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#7,379,032
of 25,436,226 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,675
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#55,418
of 194,530 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#41
of 76 outputs
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