Giant males or dwarf females: What determines the extreme sexual size dimorphism in Lamprologus callipterus?

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1254-1265

  Schutz D ^a   Taborsky, M ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Body size; Cichlids; Lake Tanganyika; Sexual and natural selection; Shell brooders

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CICHLID; HABITAT USE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

EID: 0033672612     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.2000.1388     Document Type: Article

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