Phylogeographic patterns and cryptic speciation across oceanographic barriers in South African intertidal fishes

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2505-2519

  von der Heyden, S ^a   Bowie, R C K ^b   Prochazka, K ^c   Bloomer, P ^d   Crane, N L ^e   Bernardi, G ^f  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Branch: Fisheries ^*  (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e Cabrillo College   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Agulhas; Cape of Good Hope; Clinus superciliosus; Muraenoclinus dorsalis; Phylogeography; South Africa; Speciation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RHODOPSIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

BARRIER ISLAND; CRYPSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEIN; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE; SEA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RHODOPSIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAPE AGULHAS; CAPE POINT; CAPE PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

CLINIDAE; CLINUS SUPERCILIOSUS; PISCES;

EID: 80053996108     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02382.x     Document Type: Article

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