DNA sequences of troglobitic nicoletiid insects support Sierra de El Abra and the Sierra de Guatemala as a single biogeographical area: Implications for Astyanax

The blind Mexican tetra fish, Astyanax mexicanus, has become the most influential model for research of cave adapted organisms. Many authors assume that the Sierra de Guatemala populations and the Sierra de El Abra populations are derived from two independent colonizations. This assumption arises in...

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Main Authors: Luis Espinasa, Nicole D. Bartolo, Catherine E. Newkirk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2014-03-01
Series:Subterranean Biology
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Online Access:http://subtbiol.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=1317