Resource-dependent sex-allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1046-1055

  Vizoso, Dita B ^a,b   SchArer L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Budget effects; Fitness gain curves; Macrostomum lignano; Resource dependence; Sex allocation; Simultaneous hermaphrodite; Size dependence

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FITNESS; FLATWORM; HERMAPHRODITE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX ALLOCATION;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DIET; GENDER AND SEX; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TURBELLARIA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIET; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITISM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALIA; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 34247534860     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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