Swimming out of Africa: Mitochondrial DNA evidence for late Pliocene dispersal of a cichlid from Central Africa to the Levant

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-109

  Werner, Noam Y ^a   Mokady, Ofer ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cichlidae; Palaeontology; Phylogenetic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CICHLID; DISPERSAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PLIOCENE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; LEVANTINE BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ASTATOTILAPIA; ASTATOTILAPIA FLAVIIJOSEPHI; CICHLIDAE; MYA;

EID: 2442656849     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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