Gender contests in a simultaneous hermaphrodite snail: A size-advantage model for behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 345-351

  DeWitt, Thomas J ^a,b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYSA GYRINA; PHYSA HETEROSTROPHA;

GASTROPOD; GENDER EXPRESSION; PREDATION RISK; SHELL LENGTH; SIMULTANEOUS HERMAPHRODITE; SNAIL; SPERM;

EID: 0029667591     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0033     Document Type: Article

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