Establishment and expansion of Lake Malawi rock fish populations after a dramatic Late Pleistocene lake level rise

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 170-182

  Genner, Martin J ^a,b   Knight, Mairi E ^c   Haesler, Marcel P ^d,e   Turner, George F ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

^f BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allopatric speciation; Climate change; Phylogeography; Sexual selection; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CICHLIDAE; MAYLANDIA; PSEUDOTROPHEUS;

EID: 72849152698     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04434.x     Document Type: Article

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