Brood care in shell-dwelling cichlids is timed by independent maternal and larval clocks
Ash V Parker,
Manuel Stemmer,
Swantje Grätsch
et al.
Abstract:Successful brood care requires a finely tuned interplay between caregiving parent and offspring. Cichlids are a diverse group of teleost fish known for their extensive parental care of altricial young. FemaleLamprologus ocellatuslay their eggs in the protective confines of an abandoned snail shell, where they raise them to free-swimming larvae. Here we investigated whether the transition to larval independence is driven by the behavior of the mother, the offspring, or an interaction between the two. Using 3D p… Show more
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