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- Title
Mating and Parental Care in Lake Tanganyika's Cichlids.
- Authors
Sefc, Kristina M.
- Abstract
Cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika display a variety of mating and parental care behaviors, including polygamous and monogamous mouthbrooding and substrate breeding, cooperative breeding, as well as various alternative reproductive tactics such as sneaking and piracy. Moreover, reproductive behaviors sometimes vary within species both in space and in time. Here, I survey reports on mating and parenting behaviors of Lake Tanganyika cichlid species and address the evolution of mating and parental care patterns and sexual dimorphism. Notes on measures of sexual selection intensity and the difficulties of defining mating systems and estimating selection intensities at species level conclude the essay.
- Subjects
TANGANYIKA; ANIMAL sexual behavior; CICHLIDS; FISH breeding; BIOLOGICAL evolution; DIMORPHISM in animals
- Publication
International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2011, Vol 2011, p1
- ISSN
2090-052X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4061/2011/470875