Comparing fecundity in parthenogenetic versus sexual populations of the freshwater snail Campeloma limum: Is there a two-fold cost of sex?

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Crummett, Lisa T ^a   Wayne, Marta L ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual; Fitness; Gastropod; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

BASOMMATOPHORA; CAMPELOMA LIMUM; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 62349087033     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: 17447410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2008.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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