Parallel life history evolution in mouthbrooding cichlids from the African Great Lakes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 40, 2008, Pages 15475-15480

  Duponchelle, Fabrice ^a,b,e   Paradis, Emmanuel ^b   Ribbink, Anthony J ^a,c   Turner, George F ^d  

^a Lake Malawi Biodiversity Conservation Project   (Malawi)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (Peru)

Author keywords

Parallelism; Phylogenetically controlled comparative analysis; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CICHLID; EGG; FERTILITY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LAKE; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PELAGIC FISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES HABITAT; TELEOST;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERTILITY; FRESH WATER; PHYLOGENY;

CICHLIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 55749108540     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802343105     Document Type: Article

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