Separated by sand, fused by dropping water: Habitat barriers and fluctuating water levels steer the evolution of rock-dwelling cichlid populations in Lake Tanganyika

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2272-2290

  Koblmãller, Stephan ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^b   Obermãller, Beate ^a   Eigner, Eva ^a   Sturmbauer, Christian ^a   Sefc, Kristina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

climate change; colour pattern variation; demographic history; divergence with gene flow; population structure; Tropheus moorii

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE; TROPHEUS; TROPHEUS MOORII;

EID: 79956363834     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05088.x     Document Type: Article

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