Body size and fecundity in the waterstrider Aquarius remigis: A test of Darwin's fecundity advantage hypothesis

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 424-431

  Preziosi, Richard F ^a   Fairbairn, Daphne J ^b   Roff, Derek A ^a   Brennan, Julie M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abdomen size; Body size; Egg size; Fecundity; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

AQUARIUS REMIGIS; GERIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA;

BODY SIZE; FECUNDITY; SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM; WATER STRIDER;

EID: 0030300979     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00333717     Document Type: Article

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