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SUBMITTER: Ford AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5132037 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ford Antonia G P AG Rüber Lukas L Newton Jason J Dasmahapatra Kanchon K KK Balarin John D JD Bruun Kristoffer K Day Julia J JJ
Evolution. 20161021 12
Ecomorphological differentiation is a key feature of adaptive radiations, with a general trend for specialization and niche expansion following divergence. Ecological opportunity afforded by invasion of a new habitat is thought to act as an ecological release, facilitating divergence, and speciation. Here, we investigate trophic adaptive morphology and ecology of an endemic clade of oreochromine cichlid fishes (Alcolapia) that radiated along a herbivorous trophic axis following colonization of a ...[more]