Infections may select for filial cannibalism by impacting egg survival in interactions with water salinity and egg density

Oecologia

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 673-683

  Lehtonen, Topi K ^a,b   Kvarnemo, Charlotta ^a,c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Egg density; Filial cannibalism; Salinity; Saprolegnia infection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CANNIBALISM; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTE; PARENTAL CARE; PERCIFORM; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEAWATER; SURVIVORSHIP; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

OOMYCETES; POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS; SAPROLEGNIA;

FUNGICIDE; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; CANNIBALISM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; OOCYTE; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; SAPROLEGNIA;

ANIMALS; CANNIBALISM; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; OVUM; PERCIFORMES; SALINITY; SAPROLEGNIA; SEAWATER;

EID: 84931562904     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3246-1     Document Type: Article

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