Sciaenidae fish of the Caeté River estuary, Northern Brazil: mitochondrial DNA suggests explosive radiation for the Western Atlantic assemblage
Sciaenids are fish which are normally abundant in tropical estuaries of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Caeté river estuary in the northern Brazilian state of Pará have revealed that in this area Sciaenidae is the dominant family, comprising almost 50% of all teleosts sampled. In this paper we...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2004-01-01
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Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572004000200008 |