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Classification and phylogenetic relationships of African tilapiine fishes inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2001
Nagl S, Tichy H, Mayer W E, Samonte I E, McAndrew B J, Klein J
Abstract excerpt
African cichlid fishes are composed of two major lineages, the haplochromines and the tilapiines. Whereas the phylogenetic relationships of the haplochromines have been studied extensively, primarily because of their spectacular adaptive radiations in the Great Lakes of East Africa, little is known about the relationships among the tilapiine species, despite the fact that they have become an important component...
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