Scale-eating cichlids: From hand(ed) to mouth.

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Palmer, A.R.

• 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
  • Scale-eating cichlids
  • Mouth bending
  • Handed behavior

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3ZJ36

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International