More is Not Better: Brood Size and Population Growth in a Self-Fertilizing Nematode Jonathan Hodgkin and Thomas M. Barnes Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 1991 246, 19-24 doi: 10.1098/rspb.1991.0119
More is not better: brood size and population growth in a self-fertilizing nematode.
The normal form of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite, which produces from the same germ-line tissue first a limi...