Distribution of and reproductive isolation among color morphs of a rock-dwelling Lake Victoria cichlid (Haplochromis nyererei)

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-66

  Seehausen, O ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; COLOUR POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIATION;

AFRICA; LAKE VICTORIA;

HAPLOCHROMIS NYEREREI;

EID: 0031406566     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.1997.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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