Article
Colour biases in territorial aggression in a Neotropical cichlid fish.
Oecologia - 1 May 2014
Lehtonen Topi K
Abstract excerpt
Discrete colour morphs have provided important insights into the evolution of phenotypic diversity. One of the mechanisms that can help to explain coexistence of ecologically similar colour morphs and incipient species is (colour) biased aggression, which has the potential to promote continued existence of the morphs in a frequency-dependent manner. I addressed colour biases in territorial aggression in a...
Topics
- Aggression
- Animals
- Cichlids
- Female
- Male
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation
- Territoriality