Gamete plasticity in a broadcast spawning marine invertebrate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13508-13513

  Crean, Angela J ^a   Marshall, Dustin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive maternal effect; Anisogamy; Sperm competition; Transgenerational plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING; SPERM; SPERM COMPETITION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STYELA PLICATA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; INVERTEBRATA; STYELA PLICATA;

EID: 51649092777     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806590105     Document Type: Article

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