Longevity in maternal transmission of isotopic marks in a tropical freshwater rainbowfish and the implications for offspring morphology

Starrs, Danswell; Ebner, Brendan; Eggins, Stephen; Fulton, Christopher

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Longevity in maternal transmission of isotopic marks in a tropical freshwater rainbowfish and the implications for offspring morphology

Date

2014

Authors

Starrs, Danswell

Ebner, Brendan

Eggins, Stephen

Fulton, Christopher

Publisher

CSLI Publications

Abstract

Transgenerational marking is increasingly being used to study the early life history, biology and ecology of fishes. However, the timeframe over which the injected enriched stable isotopes remain in the mother and are passed onto her offspring is largely