A comprehensive overview of the developmental basis and adaptive significance of a textbook polymorphism: head asymmetry in the cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis
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DOI: 10.1007/s10750-018-3800-z
Abstract: Identifying the evolutionary and developmental bases of adaptive phenotypes is of central interest in evolutionary biology. Cichlid fishes have been a useful research model due to their extraordinary phenotypic diversity reflecting adaptations to often very… read more here.
Keywords: head; perissodus microlepis; asymmetry; head asymmetry ... See more keywords
Towards understanding the genetic basis of mouth asymmetry in the scale‐eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis
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DOI: 10.1111/mec.13699
Abstract: How polymorphisms consisting in left–right asymmetries are produced and maintained in natural populations is a tantalizing question, which remains largely unanswered. The scale‐eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis is a remarkable example of extreme ecological specialization… read more here.
Keywords: scale eating; genetic basis; perissodus microlepis; asymmetry ... See more keywords
Developmental Process of a Pronounced Laterality in the Scale-eating Cichlid Fish Perissodus microlepis in Lake Tanganyika
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DOI: 10.2108/zs220078
Abstract: Lateral preference in behaviors has been widely documented in many vertebrates and invertebrates. Such preferences are strange, puzzling, and on the surface, not adaptive. However, behavioral laterality may increase an individual's fitness as well as… read more here.
Keywords: perissodus microlepis; eating cichlid; laterality; developmental process ... See more keywords