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Thanks for any help,

Lynn Scheu
Louisville, KY
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> Hi there!
>          I'm a third year undergraduate here in the UK, my name's
> Anthony Jones, i'm an environmental science student.  Recently my class
> took a field trip to a rockyshore habitat, there we examined the shapes
> of limpets within the intertidal zone, since then several statistical
> methods have been employed to determine if the shape of the shell
> varies within the intertidal zone, the results, as previously thougth,
> confirm that indeed they do.  Limpets being more conical at the high
> energy swash zone, and more flatter, with a rounder apex and the sub
> inter tidal zone, this was the reverse of what the students expected,
> our lecturer however said this was correct, he then set an assignment
> for us to found out why and how this change is induced, we know it's
> not genetic, that the change is environmentally induced, but more
> information is needed, i suspect it have something to do with the
> attachment mechanism employed by the limpet to attach itself to the
> substrate, but have failed to come up with any information pertaining
> to the explanation.  Okay any information or pointers to where i'd be
> able to find out about this would be much appreciated.
>
> Yours
>
> Anthony Jones