Monogamy in the maternally mouthbrooding Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish Tropheus moorii

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1595, 2006, Pages 1797-1803

  Egger, Bernd ^a   Obermüller, Beate ^a   Phiri, Harris ^b   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a   Sefc, Kristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Food and Fisheries   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Colour diversification; Mating system; Paternity; Sexual selection; Social competition

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; COLOR MORPH; MATE CHOICE; MONOGAMY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LAKE; MATING; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYGYNY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CICHLID; COLOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

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

CICHLIDAE; TROPHEINI; TROPHEUS; TROPHEUS MOORII;

FRESH WATER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COLOR; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 33747441484     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3504     Document Type: Article

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