Experimental evidence of food-independent larval development in endemic Jamaican freshwater-breeding crabs

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 246-258

  Anger, Klaus ^a   Schubart, Christoph D ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN;

ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BRACHYURA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIET; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JAMAICA; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRACHYURA; CARBON; DIET; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN; JAMAICA; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NITROGEN; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); METOPAULIAS DEPRESSUS; SESARMA DOLPHINUM; SESARMA FOSSARUM; SESARMA WINDSOR; SESARMIDAE;

EID: 16244374309     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427051     Document Type: Article

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