Intraspecific co-variation between egg and body size affects fertilisation kinetics of free-spawning marine invertebrates

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 195, Issue , 2000, Pages 305-309

  Marshall, Dustin J ^a   Styan, Craig A ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Egg size; Fertilisation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; INVERTEBRATA; PYURA STOLONIFERA;

EID: 0034737343     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps195305     Document Type: Article

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