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New Zealand triplefin fishes (family Tripterygiidae): contrasting population structure and mtDNA diversity within a marine species flock.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2009
Hickey Anthony J R, Lavery Shane D, Hannan Danielle A, Baker C Scott, Clements Kendall D
Abstract excerpt
Triplefin fishes (Family Tripterygiidae) dominate the New Zealand temperate coastal fish fauna in diversity (26 endemic species, 14 genera). Most species appear to have evolved as a local radiation and mostly occupy sympatric distributions throughout New Zealand. To investigate the forces driving current gene-flow patterns and past evolutionary histories, we searched for common patterns of population genetic...
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