Spawning colouration, parasites and habitat selection in Salvelinus alpinus: Initiating speciation by sexual selection?

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 969-980

  Skarstein, F ^a   Folstad, I ^a   Ronning H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic charr; Niche segregation; Parasites; Secondary sex traits; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DIET; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SALMONID; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPAWNING;

COPEPODA; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 33845577803     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-1112.2005.00796.x     Document Type: Article

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