Genome-wide protein phylogenies for four African cichlid species

Abstract Background The thousands of species of closely related cichlid fishes in the great lakes of East Africa are a powerful model for understanding speciation and the genetic basis of trait variation. Recently, the genomes of five species of African cichlids representing five distinct lineages w...

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Main Authors: Ajay Ramakrishnan Varadarajan, Rohini Mopuri, J. Todd Streelman, Patrick T. McGrath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1072-2