Sex Ratio: Adaptive Response to Population Fluctuations in Pandalid Shrimp
- 14 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 200 (4338), 204-206
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.200.4338.204
Abstract
Pandalus jordani is a protandrous (sequential) hermaphrodite. Populations show large year-to-year variation in age composition. In response to this variation, individuals alter the age at which they change sex. This response is predicted by a genetic model that assumes that an individual shrimp maximizes its genetic contribution to the next generation.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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