Comparative support for the expensive tissue hypothesis: Big brains are correlated with smaller gut and greater parental investment in Lake Tanganyika cichlids

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 190-200

  Tsuboi, Masahito ^a   Husby, Arild ^b   Kotrschal, Alexander ^c   Hayward, Alexander ^c   Buechel, Séverine D ^d   Zidar, Josefina ^e   Løvlie, Hanne ^e   Kolm, Niclas ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Constraints; Encephalization; Phylogenetic comparative methods; The expensive tissue hypothesis; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECTOTHERMY; EGG SIZE; PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; TRADE-OFF;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CICHLID; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ORGAN SIZE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CICHLIDS; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTESTINES; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84925378488     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12556     Document Type: Article

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