Evolution of gamete size in primitive taxa without mating types

Population Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-88

  Togashi, Tatsuya ^a,d,e   Sakisaka, Yukio ^a   Miyazaki, Tatsuo ^a   Nagisa, Masaru ^a   Nakagiri, Nariyuki ^b   Yoshimura, Jin ^c   Tainaka, Kei Ichi ^c   Cox, Paul Alan ^e   Bartelt, John L ^e,f  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e Institute for Ethnomedicine   (United States)

^f NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Fertilization kinetics; Isogamy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; GREEN ALGA; MOTILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 58149193553     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-008-0102-8     Document Type: Article

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