Sperm trading and sex roles in the hermaphroditic opisthobranch sea slug Navanax inermis: Eager females or opportunistic males?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-116

  Michiels, Nico K ^a   Raven Yoo Heufes, Alecia ^a   Kleine Brockmann, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egg trading; Gamete trading; Gastropoda; Reciprocity; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection; Sperm trading

Indexed keywords

HERMAPHRODITE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOLLUSC; RECIPROCITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; NAVANAX INERMIS; OPISTHOBRANCHIA;

EID: 0037261985     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00135.x     Document Type: Article

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