Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5617, 2003, Pages 325-329

  Verheyen, Erik ^a   Salzburger, Waiter ^b   Snoeks, Jos ^c   Meyer, Axel ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCES; RADIATION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

FISHES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

CICHLID; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FISH; LAKE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; QUATERNARY;

AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CICHLID; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGY; HAPLOTYPE; LAKE; ORGANISM COLONY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AFRICA;

CICHLIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0037432767     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1080699     Document Type: Article

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