Reproductive investment of giants and dwarfs: Specialized tactics in a cichlid fish with alternative male morphs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 131-140

  Schütz, Dolores ^a   Pachler, Gudrun ^b   Ripmeester, Erwin ^c   Goffinet, Olivier ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative reproductive tactics; Bourgeois males; Capital breeding; Cichlid fish; Income breeding; Lake Tanganyika; Lamprologus callipterus; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CICHLID; COURTSHIP; LIFE HISTORY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPAWNING; SPERM COMPETITION; TRADE-OFF;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

CICHLIDAE; LAMPROLOGUS CALLIPTERUS;

EID: 73949145439     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01605.x     Document Type: Article

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