Inheritance of female mating preference in a sympatric sibling species pair of Lake Victoria cichlids: Implications for speciation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1560, 2005, Pages 237-245

  Haesler, Marcel P ^a,b   Seehausen, Ole ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cichlid fish; Female mating preference; Genetics of reproductive isolation; Lake Victoria sexual selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FISH; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AFRICA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; ECOLOGY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HYBRID; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNDAMILIA NYEREREI; PUNDAMILIA PUNDAMILIA; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIBLING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA;

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

CICHLIDAE; PISCES; PUNDAMILIA PUNDAMILIA; VICTORIA;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 19544393565     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2946     Document Type: Article

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