Food limitation of asexual reproduction in a spionid polychaete |
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| Authors: | W. Herbert Wilson Jr. |
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| Affiliation: | Harbor Branch Foundation , RR. I, Box 196, Fort Pierce , FL , 33450 , U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Summary The rate of asexual fragmentation in the spionid polychaete Pygospio elegans is shown to increase in the presence of augmented food levels and is a density-dependent response. Asexual reproduction does not occur when the animals are reproducing sexually. |
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| Keywords: | asexual reproduction density dependence food level fragmentation Pygospio |
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