Article
More is not better: brood size and population growth in a self-fertilizing nematode.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Oct 1991
Hodgkin J, Barnes T M
Abstract excerpt
The normal form of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite, which produces from the same germ-line tissue first a limited number of sperm and then a larger number of oocytes. Self-progeny brood sizes are determined by the number of sperm, and most of the oocytes re...
Topics
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis
- Disorders of Sex Development
- Female
- Fertilization
- Male
- Mutation
- Reproduction