Evolutionary history of Lake Tanganyika's scale-eating cichlid fishes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1295-1305

  Koblmüller, Stephan ^a   Egger, Bernd ^a   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a   Sefc, Kristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; AFLP; Haplotaxodon; mtDNA; Perissodini; Perissodus; Phylogeny; Plecodus; Xenochromis

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TANZANIA; TIME;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRESH WATER; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS;

CICHLIDAE; HAPLOTAXODON; HAPLOTAXODON TRIFASCIATUS; PERISSODINI; PERISSODUS; PISCES; PLECODUS;

EID: 34547886115     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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