Natural female mating rate maximizes hatchling size in a marine invertebrate

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 696-701

  Sprenger, D ^a   Faber, J ^a   Michiels, N K ^a   Anthes, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egg size; Female fitness; Maternal offspring investment; Opisthobranchia; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GASTROPOD; HERMAPHRODITE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MATERNAL CARE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTROPOD; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CLUTCH SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTROPODA; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

CHELIDONURA SANDRANA; INVERTEBRATA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA;

EID: 44849137745     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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