Phylogeny of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid species flock and its relationship to the Central and East African haplochromine cichlid fish faunas

Systematic Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 113-135

  Salzburger, Walter ^a,b   Meyer, Axel ^b   Baric, Sanja ^a,c   Verheyen, Erik ^d   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry Laimburg   (Italy)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Cichlidae; Lake Tanganyika; Mitochondrial DNA sequences; Molecular phylogeny; Species flock

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; FRESH WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CICHLID; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; LAMPROLOGUS; PISCES;

EID: 0036005525     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351502753475907     Document Type: Article

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