DNA barcoding reveals micro-evolutionary changes and river system-level phylogeographic resolution of African silver catfish, Schilbe intermedius (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Schilbeidae) from seven populations across different African river systems

Background. Under the tropics, less than 40% of known fishes are identified to species-level. Further, the ongoing global change poses unprecedented threat to biodiversity, and several taxa are likely to go extinct even before they could be described. Traditional ecological theory suggests that spec...

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Main Authors: H.F. Van Der Bank, R. Greenfield, B.H. Daru, K. Yessoufou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2012-12-01
Series:Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
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Online Access:https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/26334/download/pdf/