The effect of temperature on sex ratio in the isopod Porcellionides pruinosus: Environmental sex determination or a by-product of cytoplasmic sex determination?

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-215

  Rigaud, Thierry ^a   Antoine, Delphine ^a   Marcadé, Isabelle ^a   Juchault, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Crustacea; inter population variability; sex determination; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

PORCELLIONIDES PRUINOSUS; ISOPODA; WOLBACHIA;

INTER-POPULATION VARIATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

FRANCE;

EID: 0030618360     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018404000804     Document Type: Article

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