The Midas cichlid species complex: Incipient sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan cichlid fishes?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2061-2076

  Barluenga, Marta ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphilophus spp. crater lakes; Ecological specialization; Parallel speciation; Sexual selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NICARAGUA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRANCHIAL REGION; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NICARAGUA; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHILOPHUS; AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; AMPHILOPHUS LABIATUS; CICHLIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 3042785096     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02211.x     Document Type: Article

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