Nuclear markers reveal unexpected genetic variation and a Congolese-Nilotic origin of the Lake Victoria cichlid species flock

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1511, 2003, Pages 129-137

  Seehausen, Ole ^a,b   Koetsier, Egbert ^b   Schneider, Maria Victoria ^b   Chapman, Lauren J ^c,d   Chapman, Colin A ^c,d   Knight, Mairi E ^a   Turner, George F ^a   Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^b   Bills, Roger ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^e S African Inst for Aquatic B   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Amplified fragment length polymorphisms; Cichlid fish; Explosive speciation; Hybridization; Lake Victoria

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CICHLID; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES FLOCK;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CICHLID; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; LAKE VICTORIA;

ASTATOTILAPIA; CICHLIDAE; THORACOCHROMIS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0037460210     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2153     Document Type: Article

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