Experimental evidence for adaptive phenotypic plasticity in a rock-dwelling cichlid fish from Lake Victoria

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-192

  Bouton, Niels ^a,b   Witte, Frans ^b   Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biting force; Feeding; Haplochromine; Neochromis greenwoodi; Premaxilla

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FISH; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA;

CICHLIDAE; NEOCHROMIS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0036775789     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00093.x     Document Type: Article

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