Strategic mating effort in a simultaneous hermaphrodite

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 593-601

  Janicke, Tim ^a,b   Kesselring, Halil ^a   Schärer, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Body size; Female fecundity; Food availability; Mate choice; Mating rate; Size assortative mating; Sperm allocation

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COPULATION; CORRELATION; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FECUNDITY; FLATWORM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HERMAPHRODITE; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 84858155405     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1307-y     Document Type: Article

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