Time and origin of cichlid colonization of the lower Congo rapids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Schwarzer, Julia ^a,b   Misof, Bernhard ^b   Ifuta, Seraphin N ^c   Schliewen, Ulrich K ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c Department of Biology   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLID; CONGO; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FRESHWATER FISH; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STREAM (RIVER); AFRICA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; TIME;

CICHLIDAE; MYA; NANOCHROMIS; STEATOCRANUS;

AFRICA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960607527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022380     Document Type: Article

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