Age and size at maturity can have significant fitness consequences. Selection often favors early-maturing individuals because of their higher survival to maturity and greater relative contribution to population growth rate, but it may also favor delayed maturation if fitness increases with age or size at maturity. Males of several poeciliid fishes exhibit variation in age and size at maturity p...

Spawning season and size at first sexual maturity of Freshwater mussel Lamellidens marginalis was studied from the specimens collected Brahmaputra River, Mymensingh district, Bangladesh July 2015 to June 2016. The present study has investigated sex ratios, gamogenetic cycle, condition index, by means standard histological procedures. results indicated no significant difference in overall ratio ...

size at sexual maturity and patterns of somatic growth are important aspects of reproductive history of crab. the main purpose of this study is to provide an estimate for the onset of morphological sexual maturity in mangrove crab, opusia indica from a population located in korangi creek intertidal mud flat (karachi, pakistan) based on relative growth. the crabs were monthly collected through q...

the present paper studies the reproductive biology, maturation size and sex ratio of penaeus monodon collected from digha fishing grounds, india during 2011-2013.  a total of 633 individual of p. monodon were examined and among them 242 were males and 391 were females. the overall yearly sex ratio was observed to be 1:1.6 (males: females). based on the results, the spawning season of p. monodon...