Environmental and endogenous control of sexuality in a rotifer life cycle: Developmental and population biology

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-24

  Gilbert, John J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MITOSIS; OOCYTES; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA; TIME FACTORS;

BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0037270275     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03004.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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