Size-Dependent Male Alternative Reproductive Tactics in the Shell-Brooding Cichlid Fish Lamprologus callipterus in Lake Tanganyika

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-62

  Sato, Tetsu ^a,d   Hirose, Mitsuru ^b   Taborsky, Michael ^a   Kimura, Seishi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Inland Water Fish Exp Stn F   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WWF Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CICHLID; MALE BEHAVIOR; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CICHLIDAE; LAMPROLOGUS; LAMPROLOGUS CALLIPTERUS; PISCES;

EID: 1242345248     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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