Ancestral transoceanic colonization and recent population reduction in a nonannual killifish from the Seychelles

Rongfeng Cui1,2, Alexandra M Tyers1, Zahabiya Juzar Malubhoy1

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.

Molecular Ecology
|May 17, 2021
PubMed

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