The Casiquiare river acts as a corridor between the Amazonas and Orinoco river basins: Biogeographic analysis of the genus Cichla

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1014-1030

  Willis, S C ^a   Nunes, M ^b   Montana C G ^c   Farias, I P ^b   Orti G ^d   Lovejoy, N R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c Museo de Historia Natural La Salle   (Venezuela)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cichla; Neotropics; Peacock bass; Phylogeography; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BAIRDIELLA RHONCHUS; CICHLA; CICHLA MONOCULUS; CICHLA OCELLARIS; CICHLA ORINOCENSIS; CICHLA TEMENSIS; CICHLIDAE; PISCES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CICHLID; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77953642470     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04540.x     Document Type: Article

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