%0 Journal Article
%T Bentho-Pelagic Divergence of Cichlid Feeding Architecture Was Prodigious and Consistent during Multiple Adaptive Radiations within African Rift-Lakes
%A W. James Cooper
%A Kevin Parsons
%A Alyssa McIntyre
%A Brittany Kern
%A Alana McGee-Moore
%A R. Craig Albertson
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2012
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0009551
%X How particular changes in functional morphology can repeatedly promote ecological diversification is an active area of evolutionary investigation. The African rift-lake cichlids offer a calibrated time series of the most dramatic adaptive radiations of vertebrate trophic morphology yet described, and the replicate nature of these events provides a unique opportunity to test whether common changes in functional morphology have repeatedly facilitated their ecological success.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009551