Color patterns and species recognition in four closely related species of Lake Malawi cichlid

By Vanessa C. K. Couldridge, G. Alexander. 2002

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Adaptive evolution and explosive speciation: the cichlid fish model (2004, background): “Closely related species are most easily distinguished by differences in colour pattern, and these differences are important in mate choic”
Sounds of male Lake Victoria cichlids vary within and between species and affect female mate preferences (2010, background): “In combination with many studies in the literature on visual signaling (Van Oppen et al. 1998; Couldridge and Alexander 2002; Egger et al. 2008), our results, on intra and interspecific acoustic variation and sound-dependent mate preferences suggest that multimodal communication plays an important…”
Female preference for male color is necessary and sufficient for assortative mating in 2 cichlid sister species (2014, background): “…species pairs at an incipient stage of the speciation process; when testing species that are completely reproductively isolated, one cannot distinguish reproductive barriers that contributed to species formation from those that arose after reproductive isolation is complete (Coyne and Orr 1989).”