Temporal Patterns of Diversification across Global Cichlid Biodiversity (Acanthomorpha: Cichlidae)
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Temporal Patterns of Diversification across Global Cichlid Biodiversity (Acanthomorpha: Cichlidae)
The contrasting distribution of species diversity across the major lineages of cichlids makes them an ideal group for investigating macroevolutionary processes. In this study, we investigate whether different rates of diversification may explain the disparity in species richness across cichlid lineages globally. We present the most taxonomically robust time-calibrated hypothesis of cichlid evol...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071162