Can sympatric speciation by disruptive sexual selection explain rapid evolution of cichlid diversity in Lake Victoria?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 262-271

  Seehausen, Ole ^a   Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cichlids; Colouration; Disruptive selection; Haplochromines; Lake Victoria; Polymorphism; Rapid evolution; Sexual selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032812854     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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