Mastacembelid eels support lake tanganyika as an evolutionary hotspot of diversification

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Brown, Katherine J ^a,b   Rüber, Lukas ^b   Bills, Roger ^c   Day, Julia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; EEL; ENDEMISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA;

CICHLIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; MASTACEMBELIDAE; MASTACEMBELUS; PISCES; TELEOSTEI;

FRESH WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EEL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EELS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRESH WATER; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA;

EID: 77953647705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-188     Document Type: Article

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