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Ancient origin and recent divergence of a haplochromine cichlid lineage from isolated water bodies in the East African Rift system.
Journal of fish biology - 1 Nov 2011
Hermann C M, Sefc K M, Koblmüller S
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic analysis identified haplochromine cichlids from isolated water bodies in the eastern branch of the East African Rift system as an ancient lineage separated from their western sister group in the course of the South Kenyan-North Tanzanian rift system formation. Within this lineage, the close phylogenetic relatedness among taxa indicates a recent common ancestry and historical connections between now...
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