Genetically distinct coelacanth population off the northern Tanzanian coast

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 18009-18013

  Nikaido, Masato ^a   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a,g   Emerson, J J ^b   Aibara, Mitsuto ^a   Mzighani, Semvua I ^a,c   Budeba, Yohana L ^c   Ngatunga, Benjamin P ^c   Iwata, Masamitsu ^d   Abe, Yoshitaka ^d   Li, Wen Hsiung ^e,f   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TANZANIA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^d Aquamarine Fukushima   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^g TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COELACANTH; FISH; GENE FLOW; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FISHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TANZANIA;

COELACANTHIDAE;

EID: 81055126268     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115675108     Document Type: Article

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