Phylogenetic relationships of Middle American cichlids (Cichlidae, Heroini) based on combined evidence from nuclear genes, mtDNA, and morphology

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 941-957

  Říčan, Oldřich ^a,b   Zardoya, Rafael ^c   Doadrio, Ignacio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Central America; Cichlidae; Middle America; Molecular systematics; Morphological systematics; Revision; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CICHLID; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CENTRAL AMERICA; CICHLIDS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RAG-1; GENETIC MARKERS; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHILOPHUS; ASTATHEROS; CAQUETAIA; CICHLASOMA; CICHLIDAE; HEROINI; HEROTILAPIA; NANDOPSIS; PISCES; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 56549108435     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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