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Camouflaged invasion of Lake Malawi by an Oriental gastropod.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2004
Genner Martin J, Michel Ellinor, Erpenbeck Dirk, De Voogd Nicole, Witte Frans, Pointier Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
In this study we report the first animal invasion, to our knowledge, into Lake Malawi. The colonizer is a non-native morph of the gastropod Melanoides tuberculata that differs substantially in external shell characters from co-occurring indigenous forms. However, because the species possesses extensive within-Africa geographical variation in shell morphology, it was unclear whether the invasion was range...
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