The Bathyclarias-Clarias species flock. A new model to understand rapid speciation in African Great lakes

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III

Volumn 324, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 683-688

  Agnèse, Jean François ^a,b   Teugels, Guy G ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clariids; Evolution; Speciation; Species flock

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

FISH; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LAKE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA; LAKE MALAWI;

BATHYCLARIAS; CLARIAS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CLARIIDAE;

EID: 0034894246     PISSN: 07644469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(01)01348-8     Document Type: Article

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