Specificity of crowding response that induces sexuality in the rotifer Brachionus

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1297-1303

  Gilbert, John J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DENSITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 0037853307     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1297     Document Type: Article

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