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Male dominance linked to size and age, but not to 'good genes' in brown trout (Salmo trutta)

BACKGROUND: Males that are successful in intra-sexual competition are often assumed to be of superior quality. In the mating system of most salmonid species, intensive dominance fights are common and the winners monopolise most mates and sire most offspring. We drew a random sample of mature male br...

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Autores principales: Jacob, Alain, Nusslé, Sébastien, Britschgi, Adrian, Evanno, Guillaume, Müller, Rudolf, Wedekind, Claus
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2222247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17974038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-207