Decreased reproductive investment of female threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus infected with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus: Parasite adaptation, host adaptation, or side effect?

Oikos

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-310

  Schultz, Eric T ^a   Topper, Michelle ^a   Heins, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FISH; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CESTODA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; SCHISTOCEPHALUS SOLIDUS;

EID: 33746339481     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14691.x     Document Type: Article

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