Why pygmy snails lay giant eggs: the kiwi syndrome
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Formaat: | artículo original |
Status: | Versión publicada |
Publicatiedatum: | 2020 |
Omschrijving: | 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. |
Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
Instelling: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
Taal: | Inglés |
OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43811 |
Online toegang: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/43811 |
Access Level: | acceso abierto |
Keyword: | Punctum pygmaeum, egg size, predation, fecundity, Apteryx. |