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Molecular divergence and speciation of Baikal oilfish (Comephoridae): facts and hypotheses.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 2010
Teterina Veronika I, Sukhanova Lubov V, Kirilchik Sergey V
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Sympatric speciation was studied in two sister species of cottoid fish from Lake Baikal (East Siberia): big golomyanka or Big Baikal oilfish (Comephorus baicalensis Pallas, 1776) and small golomyanka or Little Baikal oilfish (C. dybowski Korotneff, 1905). Analysis of nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene showed that the Little Baikal oilfish (LBO) formed a single population in the lake, whereas...
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