Laboratory mating trials indicate incipient speciation by sexual selection among populations of the cichlid fish Pseudotropheus zebra from Lake Malawi

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1540, 2004, Pages 675-680

  Knight, Mairi E ^a,b   Turner, George F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Cichlid fishes; Geographical speciation; Lake Malawi; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

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

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

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

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; METRIACLIMA ZEBRA; PISCES; PSEUDOTROPHEUS; PSEUDOTROPHEUS ZEBRA;

EID: 1842451479     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2639     Document Type: Article

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