Parasitism and shoal size in juvenile sticklebacks: Conflicting selection pressures from different ectoparasites?

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 959-968

  Poulin, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; GROUP SIZE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; ARGULUS FUNDULI; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GASTEROSTEUS WHEATLANDI; THERSITINA GASTEROSTEI;

EID: 0032724202     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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