The monogenean parasite fauna of cichlids: a potential tool for host biogeography

A Pariselle, WA Boeger, J Snoeks… - International Journal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss geographical distribution and phylogeny of Dactylogyridea (Monogenea)
parasitizing Cichlidae to elucidate their hosts′ history. Although mesoparasitic Monogenea …

Speciation in fishes

G Bernardi - Molecular ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The field of speciation has seen much renewed interest in the past few years, with
theoretical and empirical advances that have moved it from a descriptive field to a predictive …

Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events

SAM Goodier, FPD Cotterill, C O'Ryan, PH Skelton… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The geobiotic history of landscapes can exhibit controls by tectonics over biotic evolution.
This causal relationship positions ecologically specialized species as biotic indicators to …

Continental Diversification of an African Catfish Radiation (Mochokidae: Synodontis)

JJ Day, CR Peart, KJ Brown, JP Friel, R Bills… - Systematic …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Despite African rivers containing high species diversity, continental-scale studies
investigating the mechanisms generating biological diversity of African riverine faunas are …

Exceptional levels of species discovery ameliorate inferences of the biogeography and diversification of an Afrotropical catfish family

JJ Day, EM Steell, TR Vigliotta, LA Withey… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Endeavours in species discovery, particularly the characterisation of cryptic species, have
been greatly aided by the application of DNA molecular sequence data to phylogenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic fingerprints of palaeogeographic history: The tempo and mode of rift tectonics across tropical Africa has shaped the diversification of the killifish …

PDW van der Merwe, FPD Cotterill, M Kandziora… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reports a phylogeny of the African killifishes (Genus Nothobranchius, Order
Cyprinodontiformes) informed by five genetic markers (three nuclear, two mitochondrial) of …

Dispersal sweepstakes: Biotic interchange propelled air‐breathing fishes across the globe

RC Harrington, M Kolmann, JJ Day… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Biotic interchanges between Africa, India, and Eurasia are central to explaining
the present‐day distribution and diversity of freshwater organisms across these landmasses …

Testing the performance of environmental DNA metabarcoding for surveying highly diverse tropical fish communities: A case study from Lake Tanganyika

CJ Doble, H Hipperson, W Salzburger… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding provides a
highly sensitive method of surveying freshwater fish communities, although studies to date …

[PDF][PDF] First record of Mastacembelus notophthalmus (Actinopterygii: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae) for Belitung Island, Indonesia

V Hasan, LO Vieira, J South… - Acta Ichthyologica et …, 2023 - public.pensoft.net
This study was conducted aiming to record for the first time the occurrence of
Mastacembelus notophthalmus Roberts, 1989 in Belitung Island (Indonesia), and update the …

Multiple independent colonizations into the Congo Basin during the continental radiation of African Mastacembelus spiny eels

JJ Day, A Fages, KJ Brown, EJ Vreven… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim There has been recent interest in the origin and assembly of continental biotas based
on densely sampled species‐level clades, however, studies from African freshwaters are …