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Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama
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It is shown that biotic migrations across the Isthmus of Panama began several million years earlier than commonly assumed, indicating that the dramatic biotic turnover associated with the Great American Biotic Interchange was a long and complex process that began as early as the Oligocene–Miocene transition.
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Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)
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The simultaneous analysis of 6309 characters for 90 terminals resulted in the first well‐supported and resolved generic‐level phylogeny for Neotropical cichlids, supporting a Gondwanan origin for Cichlidae.
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Status, trends and management of sturgeon and paddlefish fisheries
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It is demonstrated that, with few exceptions, sturgeon and paddlefish are imperilled across the globe and long-term survival in the wild is in jeopardy and recommendations for priority conservation action for the future are offered.
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Temporal Patterns of Diversification across Global Cichlid Biodiversity (Acanthomorpha: Cichlidae)
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The most taxonomically robust time-calibrated hypothesis of cichlid evolutionary relationships to date is presented and several lineages from the subfamilies Pseudocrenilabrinae and Cichlinae exhibit exceptional species richness given theirClade age, a net rate of diversification, and relative rates of extinction, indicating that clade age alone is not a sufficient explanation for their increased diversity.
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Systematics and historical biogeography of Greater Antillean Cichlidae.
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Cichlid biogeography: comment and review
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All well sampled phylogenies for this group fit a pattern reflecting Gondwanan break-up, and Grounds for strictly dispersalist hypotheses are not well founded for any cichlid disjunct distribution, leaving vicariance alternatives as the only explanation.
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Derivation of the freshwater fish fauna of Central America revisited: Myers's hypothesis in the twenty‐first century
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Results of this study are consistent with Myer's hypothesis that poeciliids and cichlids dispersed to Northern or Nuclear Middle America early in the Cenozoic, long before the Plio‐Pleistocene rise of the Isthmus of Panama.
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Reply to Lessios and Marko et al.: Early and progressive migration across the Isthmus of Panama is robust to missing data and biases
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The assumption of a single closure of the Isthmus at ca.
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The First Record of a Trans-Oceanic Sister-Group Relationship between Obligate Vertebrate Troglobites
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These phylogenetic and biogeographic results show that these obligate cave fishes now found on opposite ends of the Indian Ocean are each others closest relatives and owe their origins to the break up of the southern supercontinent, Gondwana, at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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Systematics, Biology, and Distribution of the Species of the Oceanic Oarfish Genus Regalecus (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Regalecidae)
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