Colour-assortative mating among populations of Tropheus moorii, a cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.

doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3321

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Colour-assortative mating among populations of Tropheus moorii, a cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Feb 2006

Salzburger Walter, Niederstätter Harald, Brandstätter Anita, Berger Burkhard, Parson Walther, Snoeks Jos, Sturmbauer Christian

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The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria are prime examples of adaptive radiation and explosive speciation. Several hundreds of endemic species have evolved in each of the lakes over the past several thousands to a few millions years. Sexual selection via colour-assortative mating has often been proposed as a probable causal factor for initiating and...

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PMID: 16543167
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3321
PMCID: PMC1560039

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