Article
A social basis for the development of primary males in a sex-changing fish.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Nov 2006
Munday Philip L, Wilson White J, Warner Robert R
Abstract excerpt
An example of alternative male strategies is seen in diandric protogynous (female first) hermaphrodites, where individuals either mature directly as male (primary males) or first reproduce as female and then change sex to male (secondary males). In some sex-changing fishes, the testes of primary males appear anatomically similar to those of non-sex-changing species, whereas the testes of secondary males have...
Topics
- Animals
- Environment
- Male
- Perciformes
- Phenotype
- Population Density
- Population Dynamics
- Sex Differentiation
- Sex Ratio
- Social Behavior