Differences in pyloric caeca morphology between Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus ecotypes: Adaptation to trophic specialization or parasite-induced phenotypic modifications?

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 275-287

  Knudsen, R ^a   Amundsen, P A ^a   Jobling, M ^a   Klemetsen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ecotype adaptation; Feeding ecology; Gut; Intestinal cestodes; Polymorphism; Salvelinus alpinus

Indexed keywords

CESTODA; CYATHOCEPHALUS TRUNCATUS; EUBOTHRIUM SALVELINI; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS LACUSTRIS; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 46749118030     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.01934.x     Document Type: Article

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