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Gradient Evolution of Body Colouration in Surface- and Cave-Dwelling Poecilia mexicana and the Role of Phenotype-Assortative Female Mate Choice

  • David Bierbach
  • , Marina Penshorn
  • , Sybille Hamfler
  • , Denise B Herbert
  • , Jessica Appel
  • , Philipp Meyer
  • , Patrick Slattery
  • , Sarah Charaf
  • , Raoul Wolf
  • , Johannes Völker
  • , Elisabeth A M Berger
  • , Janis Dröge
  • , Konstantin Wolf
  • , Rüdiger Riesch
  • , Lenin Arias-Rodriguez
  • , Jeanne R Indy
  • , Martin Plath

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Original languageEnglish
Article number148348
Number of pages15
JournalBioMed research international
Volume2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Keywords

  • pigmentation
  • animal fins
  • cave fish
  • biological evolution
  • body size
  • caves
  • darkness
  • ecosystem
  • Geography
  • mate choice
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Mexico
  • Poeciliidae
  • Poecilia mexicana

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