Transgenerational plasticity for sexual reproduction and diapause in the life cycle of monogonont rotifers: Intraclonal, intraspecific and interspecific variation in the response to crowding

Functional Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 458-466

  Schroder T ^a,b   Gilbert, J J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal variation; Cyclic parthenogenesis; Delayed mixis; Mixis induction

Indexed keywords

DIAPAUSE; LIFE CYCLE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

BRACHIONUS; BRACHIONUS ANGULARIS; BRACHIONUS CALYCIFLORUS; BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS; EPIPHANES; EPIPHANES SENTA; INVERTEBRATA; RHINOGLENA; RHINOGLENA FRONTALIS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 2942560410     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2004.00854.x     Document Type: Article

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