Heritability and adaptive significance of the number of egg-dummies in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1716, 2011, Pages 2318-2324

  Lehtonen, Topi K ^a,b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body condition; Dominance hierarchy; Intraspecific variation; Key innovation; Narrow sense heritability; Signal value

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BODY CONDITION; CICHLID; DOMINANCE; FINFISH; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; MIMICRY; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNALING; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CICHLID; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CICHLIDS; MALE; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONI; CICHLIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 79959701488     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2483     Document Type: Article

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