Phylogeography and evolution of the Tanganyikan cichlid genus Tropheus based upon mitochondrial DNA sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-68

  Baric, Sanja ^a,b   Salzburger, Walter ^a,c   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Res Ctr for Agric/Forest L   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Control region; Great East African lakes; Lake Tanganyika; Molecular clock; Molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; LAKE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPHEUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA;

CICHLIDAE; TROPHEUS;

EID: 0037227599     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2380-7     Document Type: Article

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