Age of cichlids: New dates for ancient lake fish radiations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1269-1282

  Genner, Martin J ^a   Seehausen, Ole ^b,c   Lunt, David H ^a   Joyce, Domino A ^a   Shaw, Paul W ^d   Carvalho, Gary R ^e   Turner, George F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Fossil record; Gondwanan fragmentation; Molecular clock; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CALIBRATION; CICHLID; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGY; HABITAT; LAKE; MALAWI; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION; TANZANIA; THEORY; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

CICHLIDAE; OSTEICHTHYES; PISCES;

EID: 34548359113     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm050     Document Type: Article

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