Do highly ornamented and less parasitized males have high quality sperm? – an experimental test for parasite-induced reproductive trade-offs in European minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)

Parasites take their resources from hosts and thus directly reduce available resources for hosts’ own body functions, such as growth and reproduction. Furthermore, parasite infections cause significant indirect costs to their hosts in terms of increased investments on immune defense. In this study,...

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Autores principales: Kekäläinen, Jukka, Pirhonen, Juhani, Taskinen, Jouni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25540686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1267

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25540686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1267

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