Phylogeographical and Morphological Analyses of Triplophysa stenura (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae) from the Three Parallel Rivers Region, China.

ABSTRACT: Qiu Ren, Jun-Xing Yang, and Xiao-Yong Chen (2018) Triplophysa stenura is an indigenous and widely distributed loach in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and adjacent Three Parallel Rivers region of China. Morphological and phylogenetic analyses were performed in order to explore the genetic and morphological variation in T. stenura populations from different geographic regions and infer the divergence time and relationships between populations from the three rivers (Jinsha River, Nu River and Lancang River). Two mitochondrial genes (Cyt b, D-Loop) and 35 morphological characters were selected for genetic and morphological analyses, respectively. Phylogenetic and network analyses reveal that T. stenura is a single lineage with three well supported clades strictly

SUBMITTER: Ren Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517708 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature