Active Inbreeding in a Cichlid Fish and Its Adaptive Significance

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-229

  Thünken, Timo ^a   Bakker, Theo C M ^a   Baldauf, Sebastian A ^a   Kullmann, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CICHLIDS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; PELVICACHROMIS TAENIATUS;

EID: 33846604304     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.053     Document Type: Article

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