Reproductive characteristics and strategies of reducing-system bivalves

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-16

  Le Pennec, Marcel ^a   Beninger, Peter G ^b  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bivalves; Hydrothermal; Reducing; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; HERMAPHRODITISM; LARVA; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON;

BATHYMODIOLUS;

EID: 0033923872     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(00)00100-6     Document Type: Review

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