Pliocene isolation of a north-west Saharan cichlid fish

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 435-441

  Genner, M J ^a,b   Haesler, M P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Adaptation; Desertification; mitochondrial DNA; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ASTATOTILAPIA; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 77449151993     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: 10958649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02549.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Armitage S J, Drake N A, Stokes S, El-Hawat A, Salem M J, White K, Turner P, McLaren S J. Multiple phases of North African humidity recorded in lacustrine sediments from the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara. Quaternary Geochronology 2007, 2:181-186.
2. Causse C, Ghaleb B, Chkir N, Zouari K, Ben Ouezdou H, Mamou A. Humidity changes in southern Tunisia during the Late Pleistocene inferred from U-Th dating of mollusc shells. Applied Geochemistry 2003, 18:1691-1703.
3. Doadrio I. Freshwater fish fauna of North Africa and its biogeography. Biological Diversity of African Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes. Geographical Overviews Presented at the PARADI Symposium, Senegal, 15-20 November 1993 1994, 21-34. Teugels G GGuégan J FAlbaret J J. In, eds), pp., Tervuren, Anneles Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Sciences Zoologiques 275
4. Drake N A, Bristow C. Shorelines in the Sahara: geomorphological evidence for an enhanced monsoon from palaeolake Megachad. The Holocene 2006, 16:901-91.
5. Drake N A, El-Hawat A S, Turner P, Armitage S J, Salem M J, White K H, McLaren S. Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin and surrounding regions: the last 7 million years. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 2008, 263:131-145.
6. Fagan W F, Unmack P J, Burgess C, Minckley W L. Rarity, fragmentation, and extinction risk in desert fishes. Ecology 2002, 83:3250-3256.
7. Genner M J, Seehausen O, Lunt D H, Joyce D A, Shaw P W, Carvalho G R, Turner G F. Age of cichlids: new dates for ancient lake fish radiations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2007, 24:1269-1282.
8. Guindon S, Gascuel O. A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm to estimate large phylogenies by maximum likelihood. Systematic Biology 2003, 52:696-704.
9. Johnson J B. Evolution after the flood: phylogeography of the desert fish Utah chub. Evolution 2002, 56:948-960.
10. Johnson J B, Dowling T E, Belk M C. Neglected taxonomy of rare desert fishes: congruent evidence for two species of leatherside chub. Systematic Biology 2004, 53:841-855.
11. Joyce D A, Lunt D H, Bills R, Turner G F, Katongo C, Duftner N, Sturmbauer C, Seehausen O. An extant cichlid fish radiation emerged in an extinct Pleistocene lake. Nature 2005, 435:90-95.
12. Koblmüller S, Schliewen U K, Duftner N, Sefc K M, Katongo C, Sturmbauer C. Age and spread of the haplochromine cichlid fishes in Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2008, 49:153-169.
13. Kröpelin S, Verschuren D, Lézine A M, Eggermont H, Cocquyt C, Francus P, Cazet J P, Fagot M, Rumes B, Russell J M, Darius F, Conley D J, Schuster M, von Suchodoletz H, Engstrom D R. Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years. Science 2008, 320:765-768.
14. Lamboj A. The Cichlid Fishes of Western Africa 2004, Bornheim, Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag
15. Lévêque C. Relict tropical fish fauna in central Sahara. Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters 1990, 1:39-48.
16. Nagl S, Tichy H, Mayer W E, Takezaki N, Takahata N, Klein J. The origin and age of haplochromine fishes in Lake Victoria, East Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 2000, 267:1049-1061.
17. Nylander J A A. MrModeltest v2 2004, Uppsala, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
18. Osborne A H, Vance D, Rohling E J, Barton N, Rogerson M, Fello N. A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120 000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008, 105:16444-16447.
19. Quattro J M, Leberg P L, Douglas M E, Vrijenhoek R C. Molecular evidence for a unique evolutionary lineage of endangered Sonoran desert fish (Genus Poeciliopsis). Conservation Biology 1996, 10:128-135.
20. Salzburger W, Mack T, Verheyen E, Meyer A. Out of Tanganyika: genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of haplochromine cichlid fishes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:17.
21. Schuster M, Duringer P, Ghienne J F, Vignaud P, Mackaye H T, Likius A, Brunet M. The age of the Sahara desert. Science 2006, 311:821.
22. Stockwell C A, Mulvey M, Jones A G. Genetic evidence for two evolutionarily significant units of White Sands pupfish. Animal Conservation 1998, 1:213-225.
23. Swofford D L. PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and Other Methods). Version 4 2002, Sunderland, MA, Sinauer Associates
24. Thorne J L, Kishino H. Divergence time and evolutionary rate estimation with multilocus data. Systematic Biology 2002, 51:689-702.
25. Trape S. Impact of climate change on the relict tropical fish fauna of central Sahara: threat for the survival of Adrar mountains fishes, Mauritania. PLoS One 2009, 4:e4400.
26. Varela-Romero A, Ruiz-Campos G, Yépiz-Velázquez L M, Alaníz-García J. Distribution, habitat and conservation status of desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius) in the Lower Colorado River Basin, Mexico. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 2002, 12:157-165.
27. Vignaud P, Duringer P, Mackaye H T, Likius A, Blondel C, Boisserie J R, De Bonis L, Eisenmann V, Etienne M E, Geraads D, Guy F, Lehmann T, Lihoreau F, Lopez-Martinez N, Mourer-Chauviré C, Otero O, Rage J C, Schuster M, Viriot L, Zazzo A, Brunet M. Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad. Nature 2002, 418:152-154.
28. Werner N Y, Mokady O. Swimming out of Africa: mitochondrial DNA evidence for late Pliocene dispersal of a cichlid from central Africa to the Levant. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 2004, 82:103-109.
29. Xia X, Xie Z. DAMBE: data analysis in molecular biology and evolution. Journal of Heredity 2001, 92:371-373.
30. Yang Z. PAML: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood. CABIOS 1997, 15:555-556.
31. Rutschmann F. Bayesian molecular dating using PAML/multidivtime. A step-by-step manual. 2004, http://www.plant.ch, Available at
32. Schraml E. Haplochromis desfontainii. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006, www.iucnredlist.org, Available at, (downloaded 7 January 2009).