Lake Malawi cichlid evolution along a benthic/limnetic axis

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2262-2272

  Hulsey, C D ^a   Roberts, R J ^b   Loh, Y H E ^b   Rupp, M F ^a   Streelman, J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; African Great Lakes; Aquatic locomotion; Functional morphology; Mbuna; Utaka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886288115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.633     Document Type: Article

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