Scale-eating cichlids: from hand(ed) to mouth

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Palmer, A. Richard

• Two recent studies in BMC Biology and Evolution raise important questions about a textbook case of frequency-dependent selection in scale-eating cichlid fishes. They also suggest a fascinating new line of research testing the effects of handed behavior on morphological asymmetry.

• Date created

  2010

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Morphological asymmetry
  • Handed behavior
  • Scale-eating cichlid fishes

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R30Z7142B

• License

  © 2010 BioMed Central Ltd.