Inbreeding depression affects fertilization success and survival but not breeding coloration in threespine sticklebacks

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 425-441

  Frommen, Joachim G ^a   Luz, Corinna ^a   Mazzi, Dominique ^b,c   Bakker, Theo C M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breeding coloration; Fish; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Hatching rate; Heterozygosity; Inbreeding depression; Population size; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; LETHRINUS LATICAUDIS; NEMOPHILA; PISCES; PSEUDOMUGILIDAE;

EID: 41249086713     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908792451458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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