Plastic reproductive strategies in a clonal marine invertebrate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1532, 2003, Pages 2517-2522

  McGovern, Tamara M ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual (clonal) reproduction; Mate limitation; Phenotypic plasticity; Reproductive success; Risk spreading; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FITNESS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASTERIAS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; FITNESS; INVERTEBRATE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OPHIACTIS SAVIGNYI; PLASTIC REPRODUCTIVE ALLOCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; ASTERIAS; INVERTEBRATA; OPHIACTIS; OPHIACTIS SAVIGNYI; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 0344629190     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2529     Document Type: Article

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