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Across the Southern Alps by river capture? Freshwater fish phylogeography in South Island, New Zealand.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2000
Waters J M, Wallis G P
Abstract excerpt
We used DNA analysis of galaxiid fish to test a hypothesis of localized headwater capture in South Island, New Zealand. The restricted western, but widespread eastern, distributions of three nonmigratory freshwater fish species suggest that part of the east-flowing Waiau River has been captured by the west-flowing Buller River. However, mitochondrial control region (Kimura 2-parameter distance = 4.1-5.4%) and...
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