Evolutionary Relationships in the Sand-Dwelling Cichlid Lineage of Lake Tanganyika Suggest Multiple Colonization of Rocky Habitats and Convergent Origin of Biparental Mouthbrooding

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-96

  Koblmüller, Stephan ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^b   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Control region; Cytochrome b; Ectodini; mtDNA sequences; NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BREEDING METHOD; CICHLID; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENUS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MOTHER; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELAGIC ZONE; PLESIOMORPHY; RADIATION; ROCK; SAND; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TANZANIA; TILAPIA; TIME; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CICHLIDS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASPROTILAPIA; AULONOCRANUS; CALLOCHROMIS; CARDIOPHARYNX; CICHLIDAE; CUNNINGTONIA; CYATHOPHARYNX; ECTODUS; ENANTIOPUS; GRAMMATOTRIA; LESTRADEA; MICRODONTOCHROMIS; OPHTHALMOTILAPIA; TILAPIA; XENOTILAPIA;

EID: 18544397593     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2527-1     Document Type: Article

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