Does egg carotenoid improve larval quality in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)?

Abstract Females in mutually ornamented species are often less conspicuously ornamented than their male conspecifics. It has been hypothesized that offspring quality may decrease if females invest more resources into ornaments at the expense of resources in eggs. An experiment was carried out to tes...

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Main Authors: Torvald Blikra Egeland, Einar Skarstad Egeland, Jarle Tryti Nordeide
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-04-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8812