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What drives seasonal fluctuations of body condition in a semelparous income breader octopus?
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The vast majority of modern cephalopods is single-season breeders, or semelparous in the strict sense, that die soon after the reproduction takes place. Individual body condition in these marine invertebrates is expected to be highly affected by reproduction because: 1) the gonad weight of females, which represents
- Subjects :
- Gonad
Body mass residuals
biology
Ecology
media_common.quotation_subject
Circannual rhythm
Marine invertebrates
biology.organism_classification
Eledone
Cephalopod
Octopus
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
medicine.anatomical_structure
biology.animal
medicine
Temperate climate
Life-history trade-off
Pesquerías
Reproduction
Moulting
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Semelparity and iteroparity
Nature and Landscape Conservation
media_common
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c2c14bb8a3e873757a0fdee9ffd4edf8