Embryonic survival and larval predator-avoidance ability in mutually ornamented whitefish

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 593-601

  Huuskonen, Hannu ^a   Kekäläinen, Jukka ^a,b   Panda, Bineet ^c   Shikano, Takahito ^c   Kortet, Raine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coregonus lavaretus; Fitness; Maternal effect; Offspring performance; Paternal effect; Secondary sexual characters; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; MORTALITY; MUTUALISM; ORNAMENTATION; SALMONID; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; COREGONUS LAVARETUS;

EID: 79959232729     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01664.x     Document Type: Article

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