Sex-specific mortality explains non-sex-change by large female Sparisoma radians

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Clifton, Kenneth E ^a   Rogers, Lock ^b  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

life history; parrotfish; sex change; size fecundity skew; Sparisoma radians; sperm competition

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION;

SCARIDAE; SPARISOMA RADIANS;

EID: 38649119763     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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