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Extensive MHC variability in cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi.
Nature - 22 Jul 1993
Klein D, Ono H, O'hUigin C, Vincek V, Goldschmidt T, Klein J
Abstract excerpt
Lake Malawi in East Africa harbours 500-1,000 endemic species of cichlid fishes, all presumably derived by adaptive radiation from a single founding population within the past two million years. The species of this 'flock' differ strikingly in their ecology and behaviour, moderately in their external morphology and very little in their molecular characteristics. Here we describe high sequence variability of class...
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