Phenotypically plastic adjustment of sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
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Phenotypically plastic adjustment of sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite.
Sex allocation theory for simultaneous hermaphrodites predicts an influence of the mating group size on sex allocation. Mating group size may depend on the size of the group in which an individual lives, or on the density, but studies to date have not distinguished between the two factors. We performed an experiment in which we raised a transparent simultaneous hermaphrodite, the flatworm Macro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2323