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Phenotypic integration of brain size and head morphology in Lake Tanganyika Cichlids

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Title
Phenotypic integration of brain size and head morphology in Lake Tanganyika Cichlids
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-14-39
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Masahito Tsuboi, Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer, Niclas Kolm

Abstract

Phenotypic integration among different anatomical parts of the head is a common phenomenon across vertebrates. Interestingly, despite centuries of research into the factors that contribute to the existing variation in brain size among vertebrates, little is known about the role of phenotypic integration in brain size diversification. Here we used geometric morphometrics on the morphologically diverse Tanganyikan cichlids to investigate phenotypic integration across key morphological aspects of the head. Then, while taking the effect of shared ancestry into account, we tested if head shape was associated with brain size while controlling for the potentially confounding effect of feeding strategy.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 37%
Researcher 11 16%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 5 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 55 79%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Computer Science 1 1%
Psychology 1 1%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 6 9%
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