Variable mating durations in cyclopoid copepods: An adaptation to changing predation risks?

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 349-361

  Maier, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPEPODA; CYCLOPIA; CYCLOPS VICINUS; MESOCYCLOPS; MESOCYCLOPS LEUCKARTI; THERMOCYCLOPS; THERMOCYCLOPS CRASSUS;

EID: 0029802134     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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