We would like to thank the Mexican federal government and the state of Hidalgo for providing permits to collect fish and Nick Ratterman, Kirk Winemiller and Lee Fitzgerald for helpful comments on early versions of this manuscript. This work was supported by funding provided by a National Science Foundation grant (I0S-0923825) award- ed to G.G.R.R.E. was supported by an Undergraduate Program in Biological and Mathematical Sciences (UBM; National Science Foundation grant (DBI-1029401) directed by Dr. Jay Walton. All experiments conducted in this study complied with current state, federal, and local laws in the United States and Mexico.
Correlations among behavioral traits can generate trade-offs and constrain phenotypic evolution. Interspecific hybridization has the potential to alter behavioral trait correlations, but the effect of hybridization on...
Great thanks to Rick Winterbottom for his hard work on improving this manuscript and Abebe Getahun for graciously providing a part of his dissertation. We thank LN Du, MN He, WS Jiang, JH Lan, R Min, B Yang and J Yang for sample collection. GH Cui provided information on collection localities. L Jia and WY Wang helped with laboratory work. GH Yu and YF Huang provided advice on the study. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30730017, 31201707), National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB411600, 2008GA001), Western Light Doctor Programme of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Program (2009CC008).
Abstract The Labeoninae is a subfamily of the family Cyprinidae, Order Cypriniformes. Oromandibular morphology within the Labeoninae is the greatest among cyprinid fishes. Although several phylogenetic studies about l...