Gender-role adaptation depending on trade-offs between growth and reproduction in the simultaneously hermaphroditic freshwater snail, physa acuta

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-347

  Ohbayashi Hodoki, K ^a   Shimada, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body size; Fecundity; Gender role adaptation; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Trade off between growth and reproduction

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; GROWTH RATE; HERMAPHRODITE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SNAIL;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; PHYSA ACUTA;

EID: 33745848158     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2005.9522588     Document Type: Article

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