Life-history variation in a colonial ascidian: Broad-sense heritabilities and tradeoffs in allocation to asexual growth and male and female reproduction

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 290-299

  Yund, Philip O ^a   Marcum, Yvette ^a,b   Stewart Savage, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIES; GROWTH; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI;

EID: 0030616566     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542722     Document Type: Article

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