Male-male competition and speciation: Aggression bias towards differently coloured rivals varies between stages of speciation in a Lake Victoria cichlid species complex

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 496-502

  Dijkstra, Peter D ^a   Seehausen, O ^b,c   Pierotti, M E R ^d   Groothuis, T G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Haplochromine cichlid; Lake Victoria; Male male competition; Sexual selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

AGGRESSION; CICHLID; COLOR MORPH; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; RARE SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES COMPLEX; SYMPATRY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CICHLIDS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FRESH WATER; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; PHENOTYPE;

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

CICHLIDAE; PUNDAMILIA;

EID: 33847012485     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01266.x     Document Type: Article

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