| egg-brooding, body size and predation risk in planktonic marine copepods. | we investigated the interacting effects of copepod body size and the presence or absence of egg masses on the risk of predation by a visual predator. we conducted selection experiments involving three-spined sticklebacks (gasterosteus aculeatus) and copepods ranging in body mass from 0.5 to 740 µg c: oithona similis, corycaeus anglicus, pseudocalanus newmani, p. moultoni, pseudodiaptomus marinus, and paraeuchaeta elongata. we found that sticklebacks selected ovigerous females of the two smallest ... | 1999 | 28308333 |