Abstract
The results of several experiments on reproductive behaviour of Tigriopus fulvus, indicate that females release a sex pheromone promoting sexual recognition and attraction in males. This compound has been verified to be not only species-specific, but also slightly modified in specimens belonging to different geographical populations. The compound possesses a mass of between 100 and 1000 daltons. A male can invest from one to 15 days in the precopulatory phase; delayed fertilization causes a strong reduction in the average number of offspring produced by parental specimens belonging to the oldest agegroups, but does not have any effect on the sex ratio.
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Lazzaretto, I., Franco, F., Battaglia, B. (1994). Reproductive behaviour in the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus fulvus . In: Ferrari, F.D., Bradley, B.P. (eds) Ecology and Morphology of Copepods. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 102. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1347-4_30
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