Hybridization Promotes Evolvability in African Cichlids: Connections Between Transgressive Segregation and Phenotypic Integration

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-315

  Parsons, Kevin J ^a   Son, Young H ^a   Albertson, R Craig ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Constraint; Variation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 80051676331     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9126-7     Document Type: Article

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