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ArticleRoyal Society open science2015

Back to Tanganyika: a case of recent trans-species-flock dispersal in East African haplochromine cichlid fishes.

Britta S Meyer, Adrian Indermaur, Xenia Ehrensperger, Bernd Egger, Gaspard Banyankimbona, Jos Snoeks, Walter Salzburger

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Britta S MeyerZoological Institute , University of Basel , Basel 4051, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2549-1825
Adrian IndermaurZoological Institute , University of Basel , Basel 4051, Switzerland.
Xenia EhrenspergerZoological Institute , University of Basel , Basel 4051, Switzerland.
Bernd EggerZoological Institute , University of Basel , Basel 4051, Switzerland.
Gaspard BanyankimbonaDepartment of Biology , University of Burundi , Bujumbura, Burundi ; Royal Museum for Central Africa , Tervuren 3080, Belgium.
Jos SnoeksRoyal Museum for Central Africa , Tervuren 3080, Belgium ; Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics , University of Leuven , Leuven 3000, Belgium.
Walter SalzburgerZoological Institute , University of Basel , Basel 4051, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9988-1674

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes are the largest vertebrate adaptive radiations in the world and illustrious textbook examples of convergent evolution between independent species assemblages. Although recent studies suggest some degrees of genetic exchange between riverine taxa and the lake faunas, not a single cichlid species is known from Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria that is derived from the radiation associated with another of these lakes. Here, we report the discovery of a haplochromine cichlid species in Lake Tanganyika, which belongs genetically to the species flock of haplochromines of the Lake Victoria region. The new species colonized Lake Tanganyika only recently, suggesting that faunal exchange across watersheds and, hence, between isolated ichthyofaunas, is more common than previously thought.

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adaptive radiationHaplochromis sp. ‘Chipwa’Lake Victoriasuperflock

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PMCPMC4448823

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