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SUBMITTER: Burress ED
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784188 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180101 1870
Parallel adaptive radiations have arisen following the colonization of islands by lizards and lakes by fishes. In these classic examples, parallel adaptive radiation is a response to the ecological opportunities afforded by the colonization of novel ecosystems and similar adaptive landscapes that favour the evolution of similar suites of ecomorphs, despite independent evolutionary histories. Here, we demonstrate that parallel adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes arose in South American rivers. ...[more]