Water temperature, not fish morph, determines parasite infections of sympatric Icelandic threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1507-1517

  Karvonen, Anssi ^a   Kristjánsson, Bjarni K ^b   Skúlason, Skúli ^b   Lanki, Maiju ^c   Rellstab, Christian ^a,d   Jokela, Jukka ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b HÓLAR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Diplostomum; Ecological speciation; Habitat specialization; Host parasite interactions; Stickleback morphotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886292373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.568     Document Type: Article

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