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strategy stablished by the Winemiller and Rose model (1992) and the large egg size<br />
characteristic <strong>of</strong> the species inhabiting deep cold waters.<br />
Conversely, phylogenetic and evolutionary factors are also important and<br />
seem to be decisive at the deepest waters where basically mainly species belonging to<br />
the strict deep-sea family Porcellanasteridae are found. All these species possess a<br />
mixture <strong>of</strong> features proper <strong>of</strong> classical K strategists and the equilibrium strategists<br />
proposed by Winemiller and Rose (1992), which enable them to persist in the<br />
relatively stable environment with low energy availability that characterizes the great<br />
abyssal plains.<br />
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