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Genetics: relatedness among east African coelacanths.
Nature - 16 Jun 2005
Schartl Manfred, Hornung Ute, Hissmann Karen, Schauer Jürgen, Fricke Hans
Abstract excerpt
Coelacanths were discovered in the Comoros archipelago to the northwest of Madagascar in 1952. Since then, these rare, ancient fish have been found to the south off Mozambique, Madagascar and South Africa, and to the north off Kenya and Tanzania -- but it was unclear whether these are separate populations or even subspecies. Here we show that the genetic variation between individuals from these different...
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