Colour variation in cichlid fish: Developmental mechanisms, selective pressures and evolutionary consequences

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 516-528

  Maan, Martine E ^a   Sefc, Kristina M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Natural selection; Pigmentation; Polymorphism; Sexual selection; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PIGMENT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CICHLID; COLOR; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FISH GENETICS; FORAGING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HYBRIDIZATION; MATE CHOICE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; PRESSURE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

CICHLIDAE; NATURAL SELECTION; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CICHLIDS; COLOR; GENETIC VARIATION; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883308337     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2013.05.003     Document Type: Review

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