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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Monophyletic origin of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequences
Nature, Volume 347, No. 6293, Year 1990
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LAKE Victoria, together with its satellite lakes, harbours roughly 200 endemic forms of cichlid fishes that are classified as 'haplo-chromines'1,2 and yet the lake system is less than a million years old. This 'flock' has attracted attention because of the possibility that it evolved within the lake from one ancestral species3 and that biologists are thus presented with a case of explosive evolution. Within the past decade, however, morphology has increasingly emphasized the view that the flock may be polyphyletic4,5. We sequenced up to 803 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA from 14 representative Victorian species and 23 additional African species. © 1990 Nature Publishing Group.
Authors & Co-Authors
Meyer, Axel
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
United States, Stony Brook
Stony Brook University
United States, Durham
University of new Hampshire Durham
Kocher, Thomas D.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
United States, Stony Brook
Stony Brook University
Uganda
Freshwater Fisheries Research Organisation
Basasibwaki, Pereti
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
United States, Stony Brook
Stony Brook University
Wilson, Allan C.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Statistics
Citations: 960
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/347550a0
ISSN:
00280836
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics