... of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 adaptation clonal colony evolutionary morphology hydroid NAD(P)H fluorescence Podocoryna carnea Podocoryne carnea reactive oxygen species redox control In contrast to the ‘worms, flies, mice’ more frequently studied by biologists, individual colonial...

..., in the food supply. Colonial metazoans often encrust surfaces over which the food supply varies in time or space; hence, in these organisms, redox control of the development of feeding structures and gastrovascular connections could be similarly adaptive, allowing colonies to adjust the timing and spacing...