Melanin pattern morphs do not differ in metabolic rate: Implications for the evolutionary maintenance of a melanophore polymorphism in the green swordtail, Xiphophorus helleri

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 495-499

  Meyer, Christiane I ^a   Kaufman, Robert ^b   Cech Jr , Joseph J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Macromelanophore; Micromelanophore; Physiology; Poeciliidae; Respirometry

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

FISH BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; JUVENILE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMER; POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPLEX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MELANOPHORE; METABOLIC RATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERI;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; MELANINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

PISCES; POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII; XIPHOPHORUS VARIATUS;

EID: 33748694712     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0134-x     Document Type: Article

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