A sensory bias has triggered the evolution of egg-spots in cichlid fishes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Egger, Bernd ^a   Klaefiger, Yuri ^a   Theis, Anya ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ANAL FIN EGG SPOT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTATOTILAPIA BURTONI; CICHLID; COLOR DOT PREFERENCE; COMPUTER ANIMATED PHOTOGRAPH; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PLESIOMORPHY; PSEUDOCRENILABRUS MULTICOLOR; SENSORY BIAS; SENSORY STIMULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; PISCES; PSEUDOCRENILABRUS MULTICOLOR;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; LABORATORIES; MALE; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 80054756415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025601     Document Type: Article

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