Trade-off between male and female allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum sp.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 396-404

  Scharer L ^a,b   Sandner, P ^a   Michiels, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Local mate competition; Mating group size; Platyhelminthes; Resources; Sex allocation; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

FLATWORM; HERMAPHRODITE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX ALLOCATION; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; TURBELLARIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; TURBELLARIA;

MACROSTOMUM;

EID: 14844360149     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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