Fertilization selection on egg and jelly-coat size in the sand dollar Dendraster excentricus

Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2479-2483

  Levitan, Don R ^a,b   Irvine, Stacey D ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlated characters; Echinoids; Egg size; Fertilization; Jelly coat; Selection gradient

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION);

CLYPEASTER SUBDEPRESSUS; DENDRASTER; DENDRASTER EXCENTRICUS; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OVUM; SEA URCHINS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035544548     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00762.x     Document Type: Article

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