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Sex-specific survival and parasitism in three-spined sticklebacks: seasonal patterns revealed by molecular analysis
✍ Scribed by K. E. Arnold; A. Adam; K. J. Orr; R. Griffiths; I. Barber
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-1112
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✦ Synopsis
A molecular method of identifying sex in three‐spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus showed that adult males had a higher prevalence of dermal Glugea anomala cysts than adult females, and young‐of‐the‐year had more than adults. At the end of the breeding season, as predicted, the adult sex ratio became female biased and there was a disproportionate increase in G. anomala parasitism in adult males.