Directional sexual selection on chroma and within-pattern colour contrast in Labeotropheus fuelleborni

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Pauers, Michael J ^a   McKinnon, Jeffrey S ^b   Ehlinger, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chroma; Cichlid; Colour contrast; Haplochromine; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; COLOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COLOR; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WILDLIFE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; LAKE MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

LABEOTROPHEUS FUELLEBORNI;

EID: 17044426386     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0215     Document Type: Article

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