The Rediscovery of a Long Described Species Reveals Additional Complexity in Speciation Patterns of Poeciliid Fishes in Sulfide Springs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Palacios, Maura ^a   Arias Rodriguez, Lenin ^b   Plath, Martin ^c   Eifert, Constanze ^c   Lerp, Hannes ^c   Lamboj, Anton ^d   Voelker, Gary ^a   Tobler, Michael ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ AUTÓNOMA DE TABASCO   (Mexico)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ECOTYPE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POECILIA; POECILIA MEXICANA; POECILIA SULPHURARIA; POECILIA THERMALIS; POECILIIDAE; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SULFIDE SPRING; TAXONOMY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MEXICO; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POECILIA; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SULFIDES;

EID: 84881596278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071069     Document Type: Article

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