Adaptive evolution and explosive speciation: The cichlid fish model

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 288-298

  Kocher, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; CICHLID; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION; FISH PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CICHLIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842427843     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1316     Document Type: Review

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