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Eggspot number and sexual selection in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2012

Henning Frederico, Meyer Axel

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Sexual selection on male coloration is one of the main mechanisms proposed to explain the explosive speciation rates in East African cichlid fish. True eggspots are color patterns characteristic of the most species-rich lineage of cichlids, the Haplochromini, and have been suggested to be causally related to the speciation processes. Eggspots are thought to have originated by sensory exploitation and subsequently...

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PMID: 22937082
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043695
PMCID: PMC3427294

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