Effects of frequent mating on sex allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic great pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 332-338

  Koene, Joris M ^a   Montagne Wajer, Kora ^a   Ter Maat, Andries ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allohormone; Copulation; Hermaphrodite; Pulmonata; Reproduction; Sexual conflict; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; FEMINIZATION; HERMAPHRODITE; MATING BEHAVIOR; POND CULTURE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX ALLOCATION; SNAIL; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS;

EID: 33745275604     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0169-1     Document Type: Article

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