Genomics of adaptation and speciation in cichlid fishes: Recent advances and analyses in African and neotropical lineages

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1587, 2012, Pages 385-394

  Fan, Shaohua ^a   Elmer, Kathryn R ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body shape; Cichlid fish; Coloration; Ecological speciation; Expressed sequence tags; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SHAPE; CICHLID; COLOR; ECOMORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHENOTYPE; RELATEDNESS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

AFRICA;

EID: 84255198540     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0247     Document Type: Article

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