Indirect fitness consequences of mate choice in sticklebacks: Offspring of brighter males grow slowly but resist parasitic infections

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1462, 2001, Pages 71-76

  Barber, I ^a   Arnott, S A ^a   Braithwaite, V A ^a   Andrew, J ^a   Huntingford, F A ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gasterosteus aculeatus; Growth; Ornamentation; Sexual selection; Stickleback; parasites

Indexed keywords

FISH; FITNESS; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FISH; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CESTODIASIS; COLOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMEGMAMORPHA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0035819263     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1331     Document Type: Article

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