Geological subsidence, river capture, and cladogenesis of galaxiid fish lineages in central New Zealand

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 367-376

  Waters, Jonathan M ^a   Allibone, Richard M ^b   Wallis, Graham P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Freshwater fish; Galaxiidae; Geomorphology; Molecular clock; mtDNA; Phylogeography; River diversion; Tectonics; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

FISH; FRESHWATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLEISTOCENE; RIVER; SUBSIDENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

GALAXIAS DIVERGENS; GALAXIIDAE; OSMERIFORMES;

EID: 33745129347     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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