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The effects of predation risk on mating system expression in a freshwater snail.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2010
Auld Josh R
Abstract excerpt
Environmental effects on mating system expression are central to understanding mating system evolution in nature. Here, I report the results from a quantitative-genetic experiment aimed at understanding the role of predation risk in the expression and evolution of life-history and mating-system traits in a hermaphroditic freshwater snail (Physa acuta). I reared 30 full-sib families in four environments that...
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