Sexual and natural selection on morphological traits in a marine amphipod, Pontogammarus maeoticus (Sowinsky, 1894)

Marine Biology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-146

  Nahavandi, Nahid ^a   Plath, Martin ^b   Tiedemann, Ralph ^a   Mirzajani, Ali R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Inland Waters Aquaculture Institute Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Caspian Sea; Crustacean; Dimorphism; Scramble competition

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; EUXINIA MAEOTICUS; GAMMARIDEA; PONTOGAMMARIDAE;

EID: 85009997407     PISSN: 17451000     EISSN: 17451019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17451001003713589     Document Type: Article

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