prolocular
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- Relating to the proloculus
- 2016 February 10, “Seasonal Variation in Shell Calcification of Planktonic Foraminifera in the NE Atlantic Reveals Species-Specific Response to Temperature, Productivity, and Optimum Growth Conditions”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- If we consider that all planktonic Foraminifera commence calcification as geometrically similar prolocular stages [73 ], then different size–weight scaling slopes among species in their adult stage must result from different ontogenetic trajectories in this scaling.