A social basis for the development of primary males in a sex-changing fish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1603, 2006, Pages 2845-2851

  Munday, Philip L ^a   White, J Wilson ^b   Warner, Robert R ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative mating strategies; Coral reef fish; Developmental plasticity; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CORAL REEF; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HERMAPHRODITE; MALE; PERCIFORM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTOGYNY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FISH; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES; THALASSOMA; THALASSOMA LUCASANUM;

EID: 33751099834     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3666     Document Type: Article

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