Abstract
Synrhabdosomes are monospecific colonies of colonies of graptolites. Their mode of formation is unknown. We draw attention to a type of colony formation found in two genera of colonial rotifers and suggest that these represent plausible models for the life cycle of graptolite synrhabdosomes.
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We thank Sean Rice for comments. We thank Robert Wallace and Charles Mitchell for comments. L.W.B’s debt to Jeremy Jackson is of a magnitude that it can only be repaid by trying to do as well by my own students.
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Buss, L.W., Rice, M.G. Synrhabdosome life cycles. Evol Ecol 26, 259–263 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-011-9535-1
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