Correlation between the number of vertebrae and regions with habitat (IMAGE)

Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Correlation between the number of vertebrae and regions with habitat

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Correlation between the number of vertebrae and regions with habitat: Picture of the backbone of a species living in shallow waters (left) and the open ocean (right) showing the differences in number of vertebrae, number of regions (represented by colored boxes), and number of modules (represented by colored lines under the regions).

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Credits: Amandine Gillet

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