Environmental stability and the distribution of the sexes: Insights from life history experiments with the geographic parthenogen Eucypris virens (Crustacea: Ostracoda)

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 829-836

  João Fernandes Martins, Maria ^a,b   Vandekerkhove, Jochen ^a,b,c   Namiotko, Tadeusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEGLACIATION; DISPERSAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HATCHING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MIMICRY; OSTRACOD; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION GROWTH;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; EUCYPRIS VIRENS; OSTRACODA;

EID: 45749151052     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16557.x     Document Type: Article

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