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Comparable Ages for the Independent Origins of Electrogenesis in African and South American Weakly Electric Fishes

One of the most remarkable examples of convergent evolution among vertebrates is illustrated by the independent origins of an active electric sense in South American and African weakly electric fishes, the Gymnotiformes and Mormyroidea, respectively. These groups independently evolved similar comple...

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Autores principales: Lavoué, Sébastien, Miya, Masaki, Arnegard, Matthew E., Sullivan, John P., Hopkins, Carl D., Nishida, Mutsumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036287