Cryptic diversity of african tigerfish (genus hydrocynus) reveals palaeogeographic signatures of linked neogene geotectonic events

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Goodier, Sarah A M ^a   Cotterill, Fenton P D ^a   O'Ryan, Colleen ^a   Skelton, Paul H ^b   de Wit, Maarten J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; CYTOCHROME B;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HYDROCYNUS; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEOGENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VICARIANCE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; LAKE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HAPLOTYPES; LAKES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83355176277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028775     Document Type: Article

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