Laboratory of North American Fish Ecology (LNAFE)

Technical Paper

Techniques for the Determination of Clutch Parameters in Darters and Minnows: A Proposal for Standard Methods

Please direct questions and comments to David C. Heins at: heins@tulane.edu

Laboratory of North American Fish Ecology Publications

Undergraduate Publications

Heins, D. C., B. Ulinski, J. Johnson, and J. A. Baker. 2004. Effect of the cestode macroparasite Schistocephalus pungitii on the reproductive success of ninespine stickleback Pungitius pungitius. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82: 1731-1737.

Bagamian, K. H., D. C. Heins and J. A. Baker. 2004. Body condition and reproductive capacity of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) infected with the cestode macroparasite Schistocephalus solidus. Journal of Fish Biology 64: 1568-1576.

Heins, D. C., J. M. Johnson and J. A Baker. 2003. Reproductive ecology of the ninespine stickleback Pungitius pungitus (Linnaeus) from South-Central Alaska. Journal of Fish Biology 63: 1131-1143.

Joachim, R. D., J. M. Guill, and D. C. Heins, 2003. Female reproductive life-history traits of the rock darter, Etheostoma rupestre, from Flat Creek Alabama. American Midland Naturalist. 150: 268-274.

Heins, D. C., J. A. Baker, and H. C. Martin. 2002. The "crowding effect" in the cestode Schistocephalus solidus: density-dependent effects on plerocercoid size and infectivity. Journal of Parasitology 88: 302-307.

Heins, D. C., S. S. Singer and J. A. Baker. 2000. Virulence of the cestode Schistocephalus solidus and reproduction in infected threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77: 1967-1974.

Heins, D. C., J. A. Baker and D. J. Tylicki. 1996. Reproductive season, clutch size and egg size of the rainbow darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, from the Homochitto River, Mississippi, with an evaluation of data from the literature. Copeia 1996: 1005-1010.

Heins, D. C., J. A. Baker, R. W. King, and K. Lahti. 1995. Evaluation of ovum fixation and storage in three-spined stickleback. Journal of Fish Biology 47: 923-925.

Heins, D. C., and M. D. Machado. 1993. Spawning season, clutch characteristics, sexual dimorphism and sex ratio in the redfin darter Etheostoma whipplei. American Midland Naturalist 129: 161-171.

Parrish, J. D., D. C. Heins, and J. A. Baker. 1991 Reproductive season, clutch parameters and oocyte size of the Johnny darter Etheostoma nigrum from southwestern Mississippi. American Midland Naturalist 125: 180-186.

Heins, D. C., and F. G. Rabito, Jr. 1988. Reproductive traits in populations of the weed shiner, Notropis texanus, from the Gulf Coastal Plain. Southwestern Naturalist 33: 147-156.

Heins, D. C., and F. G. Rabito, Jr. 1986. Spawning performance in North American minnows: direct evidence of the occurrence of multiple clutches in the genus Notropis. Journal of Fish Biology 28: 343-357.

Rabito, F. G., Jr., and D. C. Heins. 1985. Spawning behaviour and sexual dimorphism in the North American cyprinid fish Notropis leedsi, the bannerfin shiner. Journal of Natural History 19: 1155-1163.

Graduate Publications

Heins, D. C., J. A. Baker, and J. M. Guill. 2004. Seasonal and interannual components of intrapopulational variation in clutch size and egg size of a darter. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 13:258-265.

Joachim, R. D., J. M. Guill, and D. C. Heins, 2003. Female reproductive life-history traits of the rock darter, Etheostoma rupestre, from Flat Creek Alabama. American Midland Naturalist. 150: 268-274.

Guill, J. M., D. C. Heins and C. S. Hood. 2003. Phylogeny and body shape variation in darters. Systematic Biology 52: 488-500.

Guill, J. M., C. S. Hood and D. C. Heins. 2003 Body shape variation within and among three species of darters (Perciformes: Percidae). Ecology of Freshwater Fish 12: 134-140.

Machado, M. D., D. C. Heins, and H. L. Bart, Jr. 2002. Microgeographic variation in ovum size of the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta Girard, in relation to streamflow. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 11: 11-19.

Guill, J. M. and D. C. Heins. 2000. Interannual variation in clutch and egg size of the banded darter, Etheostoma zonale. Copeia. 2000: 270-275.

Guill, J. M. and D. C. Heins. 1996. Clutch size and egg size variation in the banded darter, Etheostoma zonale, from three sites in Arkansas. Environmental Biology of Fishes 46: 409-413.