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Incongruence between mtDNA phylogeny and morphologial and ecological characters in loaches of the genus Lefua (Balitoridae, Cypriniformes).
Zoological science - 1 Jul 2007
Miyazaki Jun-Ichi, Nakao Koushin, Mihara Motohiro, Sakai Takehiko, Gunji Yosihide, Tojo Koji, Muraoka Keiko, Hosoya Kazumi
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate the phylogenetic position of Lefua loaches from Aichi and Shizuoka Prefectures of Honshu Island, Japan, we determined their nucleotide sequences for the mitochondrial D-loop region and compared these to sequences from four other Lefua species: L. costata, L. nikkonis, L. echigonia, a...
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