Carotenoids, oxidative stress and female mating preference for longer lived males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1618, 2007, Pages 1591-1596

  Pike, Thomas W ^a   Blount, Jonathan D ^b   Bjerkeng, Bjørn ^c   Lindström, Jan ^a   Metcalfe, Neil B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c NOFIMA   (Norway)

Author keywords

Female preference; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADAPTATION; ANTIOXIDANT; BREEDING SEASON; CAROTENOID; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LIFE CYCLE; LONGEVITY; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; TELEOST;

AGING; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURVIVAL;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 34447320525     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0317     Document Type: Article

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