Signal and preference divergence among populations of the non-endemic basal lake malawi cichlid fish astatotilapia calliptera (perciformes: Cichlidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-188

  Tyers, Alexandra M ^a   Turner, George F ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Allopatric divergence; Malawi; Mate preference

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AGGRESSION; ALLOPATRY; CICHLID; COLOR MORPH; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SIGNAL;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI; LAKE VICTORIA;

ASTATOTILAPIA CALLIPTERA; CICHLIDAE; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 84881609987     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12105     Document Type: Article

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