Intraspecific brood mixing and reduced polyandry in a maternal mouth-brooding cichlid

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 309-312

  Kellogg, Karen A ^a,c   Markert, Jeffrey A ^b   Stauffer Jr , Jay R ^a   Kocher, Thomas D ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cichlids; Foreign fry; Intraspecific brood mixing; Lake Malawi; Microsatellites; Mouth brooding; Multiple paternity; Protomelas

Indexed keywords

BROOD MIXING; CICHLID; POLYANDRY;

AFRICA; LAKE MALAWI;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; PERCIFORMES; PROTOMELAS; PROTOMELAS SPILOPTERUS;

EID: 0031839012     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.3.309     Document Type: Article

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