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Phylogeography of Ophioblennius: the role of ocean currents and geography in reef fish evolution.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2001
Muss A, Robertson D R, Stepien C A, Wirtz P, Bowen B W
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Many tropical reef fishes are divided into Atlantic and East Pacific taxa, placing similar species in two very different biogeographic regimes. The tropical Atlantic is a closed ocean basin with relatively stable currents, whereas the East Pacific is an open basin with unstable oceanic circulation. To assess how evolutionary processes are influenced by these differences in oceanography and geography, we analyze a...
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