The origin and age of haplochromine fishes in Lake Victoria, East Africa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1447, 2000, Pages 1049-1061

  Nagl, Sandra ^b   Tichy, Herbert ^b   Mayer, Werner E ^b   Takezaki, Naoko ^a   Takahata, Naoyuki ^a   Klein, Jan ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cichlid fishes; Mitochondrial DNA; Speciation; Species flock

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CICHLID; EVOLUTION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RECOLONIZATION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GEOLOGY; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA; LAKE VICTORIA;

CICHLIDAE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0034701811     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1109     Document Type: Article

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