Environmental complexity and social organization sculpt the brain in Lake Tanganyikan cichlid fish

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-39

  Pollen, Alexander A ^a   Dobberfuhl, Adam P ^b   Scace, Justin ^b   Igulu, Mathias M ^c   Renn, Susan C P ^a   Shumway, Caroly A ^b   Hofmann, Hans A ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM   (United States)

^c TANZANIA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cichlid; Ecology; Environmental complexity; Evolution; Fish; Habitat complexity; Social organization

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAKE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MONOGAMY; MONOPHYLY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PHYLOGENY; POLYGAMY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SPECIES HABITAT; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; ECTODINI; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34248673939     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101067     Document Type: Article

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