Comparative phylogenetic analyses of the adaptive radiation of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish: Nuclear sequences are less homoplasious but also less informative than mitochondrial DNA

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 666-681

  Clabaut, Céline ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; C lineage; Cichlid species flocks; Explosive speciation; NADH Dehydrogenase Subunit II; Nuclear DNA phylogeny; RAG1

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RAG1 PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; CICHLID; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOPLASY; INTRON; LAKE; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA;

CICHLIDAE;

EID: 27744442787     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0217-2     Document Type: Article

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