Color assortative mating contributes to sympatric divergence of neotropical cichlid fish

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2750-2757

  Elmer, Kathryn R ^a   Lehtonen, Topi K ^a,b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Color polymorphism; Crater lake; Midas cichlid; Sexual isolation; Sexual selection; Species complex

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; CICHLID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOR MORPH; CRATER LAKE; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; COLOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COLOR; GENE FREQUENCY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

CENTRAL AMERICA; LAKE XILOA; NICARAGUA;

AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; AMPHILOPHUS XILOAENSIS; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 70349850951     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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