Reproductive effort in molluscs

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Browne; W. D. Russell-Hunter

• Book ID: 104734517
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 267 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8549
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00349988

✦ Synopsis

A survey of the available molluscan literature shows that reproductive effort is higher in semelparous species (29.90%) than in iteroparous species (18.21%), and that in iteroparous species reproductive effort increases with successive breeding seasons. Oviparous species were found to divert considerably more into reproduction than viviparous species, with 24.24% and 5.25% channeled respectively.