Maternal investment in egg production: Environmental and population-specific effects on offspring performance in the snapping shrimp Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt, 1924) (Decapoda, Alpheidae)

Animal Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 237-247

  Pavanelli, Caio A M ^a   Mossolin, Emerson C ^a   Mantelatto, Fernando L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fecundity; reproduction; reproductive output; Southern Atlantic

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; EGG PRODUCTION; EGG SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FECUNDITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MATERNAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; POPULATION TYPE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPHEIDAE; ALPHEUS NUTTINGI; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956398392     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: 15707563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075610X516466     Document Type: Article

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