BACKUP IN SESSILES. “This advantage of reproductive assurance is particularly pronounced in sessile animals—like corals—and plants, which cannot move to find a mate. Thus there is a clear advantage to combining both male and female functions within an individual, especially in taxa with low mobility.”
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001899
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022