Condition Dependent Effects on Sex Allocation and Reproductive Effort in Sequential Hermaphrodites
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Condition Dependent Effects on Sex Allocation and Reproductive Effort in Sequential Hermaphrodites
Theory predicts the optimal timing of sex change will be the age or size at which half of an individual's expected fitness comes through reproduction as a male and half through reproduction as a female. In this way, sex allocation across the lifetime of a sequential hermaphrodite parallels the sex allocation of an outbreeding species exhibiting a 1:1 ratio of sons to daughters. However, the exp...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109626