Lake Level Fluctuations Synchronize Genetic Divergences of Cichlid Fishes in African Lakes
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Lake level fluctuations synchronize genetic divergences of cichlid fishes in African lakes.
Water level fluctuations are important modulators of speciation processes in tropical lakes, in that they temporarily form or break down barriers to gene flow among adjacent populations and/or incipient species. Time estimates of the most recent major lowstands of the three African Great Lakes are thus crucial to infer the relative timescales of explosive speciation events in cichlid species fl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1537-1719,0737-4038
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003788