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Dealing with Food and Eggs in Mouthbrooding Cichlids: Structural and Functional Trade-Offs in Fitness Related Traits

BACKGROUND: As in any vertebrate, heads of fishes are densely packed with functions. These functions often impose conflicting mechanical demands resulting in trade-offs in the species-specific phenotype. When phenotypical traits are linked to gender-specific parental behavior, we expect sexual diffe...

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Autores principales: tkint, Tim, Verheyen, Erik, De Kegel, Barbara, Helsen, Philippe, Adriaens, Dominique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22348043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031117