Integrating field and laboratory evidence for environmental sex determination in the amphipod, Echinogammarus marinus

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2885-2890

  Guler, Yasmin ^a   Short, Stephen ^a   Kile, Peter ^b   Ford, Alex T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BREEDING POPULATION; FIELD METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; PARASITE; PHOTOPERIOD; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO;

AMPHIPODA; ECHINOGAMMARUS MARINUS;

EID: 84870365254     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2042-2     Document Type: Article

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