Out of Tanganyika: Genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Salzburger, Walter ^a   Mack, Tanja ^a   Verheyen, Erik ^b   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; VICTORIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CICHLID; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL LINEAGE; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 17444424650     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-17     Document Type: Article

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