Gender-role alternation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic freshwater snail Physa acuta: Not with the same partner

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 713-720

  Facon, Benoît ^a,c   Ravigné, Virginie ^b   Goudet, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Campus International de Baillarguet   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Conditional reciprocity; Hermaphroditic freshwater snail; Mating behaviour; Sex role alternation

Indexed keywords

HERMAPHRODITE; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX ROLE; SNAIL;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; PHYSA ACUTA;

EID: 38849200452     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0496-x     Document Type: Article

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