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To investigate the evolutionary significance of sudden shifts in shell coiling direction in planktonic foraminifera.

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To investigate the evolutionary significance of sudden shifts in shell coiling direction in planktonic foraminifera.
Synthesis of multiple case studies from Eocene to Recent (last 56 million years)
Analysis of global coiling direction transitions across taxa and ocean basins
Examination of ecological and evolutionary implications of these shifts.
Coiling flips occur on timescales of thousands of years, indicating rapid evolutionary changes.
Flips may signal cryptic speciation linked to habitat preferences and water mass distributions.
Changes in coiling direction are not merely adaptive traits, but markers of underlying evolutionary dynamics.

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Synthesis of coiling direction shifts suggests ecological speciation in marine zooplankton, revealing hidden evolutionary dynamics.

Wade et al. (2026) studied this question.

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