Behavioral dominance between female color morphs of a Lake Victoria cichlid fish

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 593-600

  Dijkstra, Peter D ^a,b   Van Dijk, Sander ^b   Groothuis, Ton G G ^b   Pierotti, Michele E R ^c,d   Seehausen, Ole ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Aggression; Color polymorphism; Dominance relationships; Female female competition; Haplochromine cichlid; Lake Victoria; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ASYMMETRY; CICHLID; COEXISTENCE; COLOR MORPH; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE FLOW; HERITABILITY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

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

CICHLIDAE; NEOCHROMIS OMNICAERULEUS;

EID: 66149115684     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp036     Document Type: Article

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