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¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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Research Abstract |
Based on fossil specimens of mollusks(especially ammonoids and nautiloids), their evolutionary history of diversity and hatchling sizes was analyzed. The hatchling sizes in nautiloids show no change across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. The analyses of hatchling sizes during Paleozoic and Mesozoic demonstrated that the hatchling sizes increased from Paleozoic toward Mesozoic, suggesting that sympatric speciation was a plausible dominant process of their macroevolution.
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