A snail with unbiased population sex ratios but highly biased brood sex ratios

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1512, 2003, Pages 283-288

  Yusa, Yoichi ^a   Suzuki, Yoshito ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Polygene; Pomacea canaliculata; Sex ratio; Variation

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SNAIL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SNAIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMPULLARIIDAE; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; MARTES PENNANTI; POMACEA; POMACEA CANALICULATA;

EID: 0037423657     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2226     Document Type: Article

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