Environmental sex determination in a parasitic copepod: Checking heterogeneity and unpredictability of the environment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 269, Issue , 2004, Pages 163-171

  Michaud, Marilyn ^a,b   De Meeûs, Thierry ^a   Renaud, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Copepod; Heterogeneity; Pachypygus gibber; Parasite; Selection; Sex determining mechanism; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY; PARASITE; SEX DETERMINATION;

ETANG DE THAU; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HERAULT; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; WESTERN EUROPE;

ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONIDAE; COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PACHYPYGUS GIBBER;

EID: 1942477633     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps269163     Document Type: Article

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