No evidence for parallel sympatric speciation in cichlid species of the genus Pseudotropheus from north-western Lake Malawi

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-46

  Rico, C ^a   Bouteillon, P ^a   Van Oppen, M J H ^a,c   Knight, M E ^b   Hewitt, G M ^a   Turner, G F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cichlid fish; Lake Malawi; Mbuna; Microsatellites; Parallel speciation; Population structure

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CICHLID; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MALAWI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALAWI; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PSEUDOTROPHEUS;

EID: 0037232543     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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