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Historical biogeography of the livebearing fish genus Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae: Cyprinodontiformes).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2002
Mateos Mariana, Sanjur Oris I, Vrijenhoek Robert C
Abstract excerpt
To assess the historical biogeography of freshwater topminnows in the genus Poeciliopsis, we examined sequence variation in two mitochondrial genes, cytochrome b (1140 bp) and NADH subunit 2 (1047 bp). This widespread fish genus is distributed from Arizona to western Colombia, and nearly half of its 21 named species have distributions that border on the geologically active Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB), a...
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