Maternal and environmental influences on egg size and juvenile life-history traits in Pacific salmon

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1727-1740

  Braun, Douglas C ^a   Patterson, David A ^b   Reynolds, John D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size; Fecundity; Juvenile size; Migration conditions; Offspring size; Sockeye salmon; Temperature; Transgenerational effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886304773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.555     Document Type: Article

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