Are secondary sex traits, parasites and immunity related to variation in primary sex traits in the Arctic charr?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Måsvær, Marthe ^a   Liljedal, Ståle ^a   Folstad, Ivar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic charr; Female choice; Immunocompetence; Parasite infections; Secondary sex traits; Sperm production

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PARASITISM; SALMONID; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPERM;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EJACULATION; GONAD; IMMUNITY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPAWNING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 10744230644     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0090     Document Type: Article

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