Do reproductive strategy and breeding season influence the presence of mate recognition in the intertidal snail littorina?

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

Volumn 41, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 53-60

  Erlandsson, Johan ^a,b  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Developmental mode; Interspecific copulation; Intrasexual copulation; Mate discrimination; Mate search; Mating behaviour; Mucous trail following

Indexed keywords

LITTORINA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS;

EID: 0036710212     PISSN: 07924259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07924259.2002.9652735     Document Type: Article

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