Male-male competition and nuptial-colour displacement as a diversifying force in Lake Victoria cichlid fishes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1546, 2004, Pages 1345-1353

  Seehausen, Ole ^a,c,d,e   Schluter, Dolph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Colour evolution; Divergent selection; Frequency dependent selection; Sexual selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

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

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CICHLID; COLOR; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

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

CICHLIDAE; PISCES; VICTORIA;

EID: 3042849252     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2737     Document Type: Article

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