Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in the Midas Cichlid fish pharyngeal jaw and its relevance in adaptive radiation

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Muschick, Moritz ^a,b   Barluenga, Marta ^a,c   Salzburger, Walter ^a,b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CICHLID; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PERSISTENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

NICARAGUA;

AMPHILOPHUS; AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; CICHLIDAE;

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CICHLID; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; JAW; METABOLISM; NICARAGUA; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM; CICHLIDS; GENETIC SPECIATION; JAW; NICARAGUA; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 79955393342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-116     Document Type: Article

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