Experimental insight into the proximate causes of male persistence variation among two strains of the androdioecious Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda)

BMC Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wegewitz, Viktoria ^a   Schulenburg, Hinrich ^b   Streit, Adrian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48249143612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-8-12     Document Type: Article

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