Why pygmy snails lay giant eggs: the kiwi syndrome

 

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Egilea: Monge-Nájera, Julián
Formatua: artículo original
Egoera:Versión publicada
Argitaratze data:2020
Deskribapena:Some minute land snails lay disproportionally large eggs, and the reason is unknown. A possibility is the “Kiwi Syndrome”, in which natural selection pressures associated with low egg predation, heavy predation of the young, and a minimal viable size for hatchlings, force small females to invest in relatively large offspring at the cost of reduced fecundity.
Herria:Portal de Revistas UCR
Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Hizkuntza:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43811
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/43811
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Gako-hitza:Punctum pygmaeum, egg size, predation, fecundity, Apteryx.