Determinants of female and male reproductive success in a simultaneous hermaphrodite land snail

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 707-715

  Minoretti, Nicole ^a   Schmera, Denes ^a   Kupfernagel, Sandra ^a   Zschokke, Samuel ^a   Armbruster, Georg F J ^a   Beese, Kathleen ^a   Baur, Anette ^a   Baur, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arianta arbustorum; Gastropod; Mating success; Multiple mating; Paternity; Reproductive success; Sex allocation; Simultaneous hermaphrodite

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; DIVERGENCE; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; MULTIPLE MATING; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAIL; TAGGING; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; ARIANTA ARBUSTORUM; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 80052696666     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.026     Document Type: Article

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