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Back to Tanganyika: a case of recent trans-species-flock dispersal in East African haplochromine cichlid fishes
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 3380049
Author(s) Meyer, Britta S; Indermaur, Adrian; Ehrensperger, Xenia; Egger, Bernd; Banyankimbona, Gaspard; Snoeks, Jos; Salzburger, Walter
Author(s) at UniBasel Salzburger, Walter
Year 2015
Title Back to Tanganyika: a case of recent trans-species-flock dispersal in East African haplochromine cichlid fishes
Journal Royal Society open science
Volume 2
Number 3
Pages / Article-Number 140498
Abstract The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes are the largest vertebrate adaptive radiations in the world and illustrious textbook examples of convergent evolution between independent species assemblages. Although recent studies suggest some degrees of genetic exchange between riverine taxa and the lake faunas, not a single cichlid species is known from Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria that is derived from the radiation associated with another of these lakes. Here, we report the discovery of a haplochromine cichlid species in Lake Tanganyika, which belongs genetically to the species flock of haplochromines of the Lake Victoria region. The new species colonized Lake Tanganyika only recently, suggesting that faunal exchange across watersheds and, hence, between isolated ichthyofaunas, is more common than previously thought.
Publisher The Royal Society
ISSN/ISBN 2054-5703
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/40767/
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1098/rsos.140498
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064619
ISI-Number WOS:000377965000009
Document type (ISI) Journal Article
 
   

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