Genetic support for random mating between left and right-mouth morphs in the dimorphic scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis from Lake Tanganyika

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1940-1957

  Lee, H J ^a   Pittlik, S ^a   Jones, J C ^a   Salzburger, W ^b   Barluenga, M ^c   Meyer, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antisymmetry; Genetic linkage; Heritability; Phenotypic plasticity; Random mating; Scale eating cichlid fish

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CICHLID; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MOUTH; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOUTH; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

CICHLIDAE; PERISSODUS MICROLEPIS;

EID: 77649141268     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02620.x     Document Type: Article

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