Relative size influences gender role in the freshwater hermaphroditic snail, Helisoma trivolvis

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1122-1127

  Norton, Cynthia G ^a   Johnson, Angela F ^a   Mueller, Rebecca L ^a  

^a ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Freshwater snails; Gender role; Helisoma trivolvis; Sex allocation; Simultaneous hermaphrodite

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; EGG; MATING BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX ALLOCATION; SNAIL; SPERM;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; HELISOMA TRIVOLVIS;

EID: 56449120081     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn099     Document Type: Article

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