Reproductive roles predict sexual dimorphism in internal and external morphology of lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-222

  Casselman, S J ^a   Schulte Hostedde, Albrecht I ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size; Competition; Energy allocation; Muscle mass; Reproduction; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; MORPHOLOGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

COREGONUS; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS;

EID: 4344576572     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2004.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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