Morphological diversity and the roles of contingency, chance and determinism in African cichlid radiations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Young, Kyle A ^a,b   Snoeks, Jos ^c,d   Seehausen, Ole ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; MORPHOSPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION;

EID: 62749140795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004740     Document Type: Article

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