Environmental stress and the maintenance of sex in a freshwater snail

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1482-1486

  Lively, Curtis M ^a   Lyons, Emily J ^a   Peters, A D ^a   Jokela, Jukka ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Environmental stress; Geographic parthenogenesis; Mutational deterministic hypothesis; Potamopyrgus antipodarum; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SNAIL; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMALIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM;

EID: 0031732249     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02029.x     Document Type: Article

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