Lake tanganyika - A 'melting pot' of ancient and young cichlid lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae)?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Weiss, Juliane D ^a   Cotterill, Fenton P D ^b   Schliewen, Ulrich K ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CICHLID; CLADISTICS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NEOGENE; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; TELEOST; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LAKE; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; BATHYBATINI; BOULENGEROCHROMIS; CICHLIDAE; ERETMODINI; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; TROPHEINI;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; LAKES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84928780256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125043     Document Type: Article

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