Single paternity within broods of the brown crab Cancer pagurus: A highly fecund species with long-term sperm storage

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 368, Issue , 2008, Pages 209-215

  McKeown, Niall J ^a   Shaw, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancridae; Crustacea; Effective population size; Management; Mating system; Paternity; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

CRAB; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; MONOGAMY; PATERNITY; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM COMPETITION;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

CANCER PAGURUS; CANCRIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 54549112295     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07634     Document Type: Article

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