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Some aspects of colony development in corals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2017

William A. Oliver Jr.
William A. Oliver Jr.*
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U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
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Abstract

Many peculiarities of growth and development in colonial metazoans are related to the fact that a true colony is a clone, composed of genetically identical individuals reproduced asexually from a single founding individual. In fossil colonies the close relationship of individuals may be difficult to prove, but it must be assumed for analysis to be meaningful.

Intercolony variation is due to the interaction of genetic and environmental controls as in solitary organisms. Intracolony variation may be very limited because of the lack of genetic variation, but microenvironmental differences (situation within colony) may cause enough individual variation to mask the restrictive effect of genetic similarity.

Study of the number of major septa in some Devonian solitary and colonial rugose corals shows significantly less variation within colonies than within “populations” or species of colonial or solitary forms. Greater variation within some colonies may result from either genetic or mechanical accidents. Septal number and diameter are closely correlated in populations and species, but analyses of individuals within colonies frequently show weak or no correlation. Available data suggest: 1) that septal-number variation may be genetically limited in rugose corals and 2) that the general assumption that number of septa is a function of diameter may be in error.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 42 , Issue S2: Paleontological Society Memoir 2. Paleobiological Aspects of Growth and Development: A Symposium , September 1968 , pp. 16 - 34
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Copyright © 1968 Paleontological Society 

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