Natural Selection and Sex Change in Pandalid Shrimp: Test of a Life-History Theory
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 113 (5), 715-734
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283428
Abstract
A graphical approach to the genetical theory of sex change is presented. Graphs help clarify a set of predictions to be tested against data from pandalid shrimp. These shrimp are protandrous hermaphrodites (reproduce first as males). The genetical theory is used to predict the age of sex change. Since these shrimp show geographic variation in this age, they provide a good opportunity to test the evolutionary model.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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