An optimality approach to male and female body sizes in an extremely size-dimorphic cichlid fish

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1393-1408

  Schütz, Dolores ^a,b   Parker, Geoffrey A ^c   Taborsky, Michael ^b   Sato, Tetsu ^d  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecological constraints; ESS model; Natural selection; Sexual size dimorphism; Shell brooding

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; LAMPROLOGUS CALLIPTERUS;

EID: 33845926869     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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