Reduction of egg size in natural populations of threespine stickleback infected with a cestode macroparasite

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Heins, David C ^a   Baker, John A ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EGG PRODUCTION; EGG SIZE; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE INTENSITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EGG PRODUCTION; EGG SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PARASITISM;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; CESTODE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FRESH WATER; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; SMEGMAMORPHA;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

EID: 0037325824     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/0022-3395(2003)089[0001:ROESIN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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