Sexual dimorphism and population divergence in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish genus Tropheus

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Herler, Juergen ^a,b   Kerschbaumer, Michaela ^a   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^b   Postl, Lisbeth ^a   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; TROPHEUS; TROPHEUS MOORII; TROPHEUS POLLI;

EID: 76949100967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-4     Document Type: Article

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