Fig. 3: Body size differences between cooperatively breeding and non-cooperatively breeding cichlids in Lake Tanganyika living in five distinct breeding habitats.
From: Repeated evolution of cooperative breeding and life history traits in Lake Tanganyika cichlids
a Depicts the differences in body weight of female breeders, b of male breeders. Female and male body weight was obtained for 39 species by standardized field sampling, with each point representing a species. c depicts differences in total length (TL) between cooperatively and non-cooperatively breeding cichlids, based on data obtained from FishBase. TL measurement methods were not fully standardized, and there was no distinction between sexes. Data for 61 species were included, with each plot representing a species. N. niger represents the basal species of the clade of cooperatively breeding cichlids; however, its status as a cooperatively breeding cichlid is based on anecdotal observations.
