Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7077, 2006, Pages 719-723

  Barluenga, Marta ^a   Stölting, Kai N ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^a   Muschick, Moritz ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LAKES;

CICHLID FISH; HIGH-BODIED BENTHIC SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VOLCANIC CRATER LAKE;

BIODIVERSITY;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CICHLID; CRATER LAKE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; LAKE; LIMNETIC ZONE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NICARAGUA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SYMPATRY;

AMPHILOPHUS; AMPHILOPHUS CITRINELLUS; AMPHILOPHUS ZALIOSUS; ANIMALIA; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 32544432563     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04325     Document Type: Article

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