Strong species structure but weak geographical structure in demersal Lake Victoria cichlids.

ABSTRACT: Studying phenotypic and genetic differentiation between very young species can be very informative with regard to learning about processes of speciation. Identifying and characterizing genetic species structure and distinguishing it from spatial genetic structure within a species is a prerequisite for this and is often not given sufficient attention. Young radiations of cichlid fish are classical speciation study systems. However, it is only during the past decade that population genomics based on next-generation sequencing has begun to provide the power to resolve species and distinguish speciation from spatial population structure for the youngest of these radiations. The Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlids constitute the youngest large cichlid fish radiation, probably <20,000 years old

SUBMITTER: van Rijssel JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9790821 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature