Resource allocation plasticity in sea urchins: Rapid, diet induced, phenotypic changes in the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (Muller)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-14

  Russell, Michael P ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenotypic plasticity; Reaction norms; Resource allocation; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; GONAD; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEA URCHIN;

ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 0032583872     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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