No plastic responses to experimental manipulation of sperm competition per se in a free-living flatworm

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 292-299

  Sandner, Peter ^a   Schärer, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLATWORM; FOOD SUPPLY; GROUP SIZE; MATING BEHAVIOR; METABOLITE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX ALLOCATION; SPERM COMPETITION;

MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 77951250340     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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