Population structure and colour variation of the cichlid fish Labeotropheus fuelleborni Ahl along a recently formed archipelago of rocky habitat patches in southern Lake Malawi

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1415, 1999, Pages 119-130

  Arnegard, Matthew E ^a,d   Markert, Jeffrey A ^b   Danley, Patrick D ^b   Stauffer Jr , Jay R ^a   Ambali, Aggrey J ^c   Kocher, Thomas D ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic differentiation; Habitat heterogeneity; Haplochromine cichlid; Isolation by distance; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

FISH; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COLOR; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAKE; MALAWI; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; LABEOTROPHEUS FUELLEBORNI;

EID: 0344990174     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0611     Document Type: Article

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