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    Area of Science:

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    • Reproductive Ecology

    Background:

    • Marine invertebrates utilize distinct reproductive strategies: producing numerous small eggs (planktotrophic larvae) or fewer large eggs (lecithotrophic development).
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    • To determine if bimodal egg size distributions are prevalent across the phylum Echinodermata.

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    • The study provides statistical support for bimodal egg size distributions in several echinoderm classes.
    • This finding challenges the prevalence of unimodal distributions and supports evolutionary models predicting extreme egg sizes.
    • Bimodal egg size distributions appear to be a significant reproductive pattern within the phylum Echinodermata.