Ecological causes of sex-biased parasitism in threespine stickleback

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-63

  Reimchen, T E ^a   Nosil, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diet; Ecological selection; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Parasitism; Queen Charlotte Islands; Resource partitioning; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

PARASITISM; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL SELECTION;

BUNODERA; CYATHOCEPHALUS TRUNCATUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

EID: 0034962298     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2001.0523     Document Type: Article

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