Why protogynous hermaphrodite males are relatively larger than females? Testing growth hypotheses in Mediterranean rainbow wrasse Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 337-349

  Linde, Marta ^a   Palmer, Miquel ^a   Alós, Josep ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Back calculation; Bayesian approach; Diandric protogyny; Growth curves; Labridae; Sex change

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BODY SIZE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; GROWTH CURVE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OTOLITH; PERCIFORM; PROTOGYNY; SEX REVERSAL; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

CORIS JULIS; LABRIDAE;

EID: 80053561985     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9844-9     Document Type: Article

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