Late pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and rapid evolution of cichlid fishes

被引：404

作者：

Johnson, TC

Scholz, CA

Talbot, MR

Kelts, K

Ricketts, RD

Ngobi, G

Beuning, K

Ssemmanda, I

McGill, JW

机构：

[1] UNIV MIAMI,ROSENSTIEL SCH MARINE & ATMOSPHER SCI,MIAMI,FL 33149

[2] UNIV BERGEN,INST GEOL,N-5007 BERGEN,NORWAY

[3] UNIV MINNESOTA,LIMNOL RES CTR,MINNEAPOLIS,MN 55455

[4] MAKERERE UNIV,DEPT GEOL,KAMPALA,UGANDA

[5] EMBANGWENI HOSP,EMBANGWENI,MALAWI

来源：

SCIENCE | 1996年 / 273卷 / 5278期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1126/science.273.5278.1091

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and harbors more than 300 endemic species of haplochromine cichlid fish. Seismic reflection profiles and piston cores show that the lake not only was at a low stand but dried up completely during the Late Pleistocene, before 12,400 carbon-14 years before the present. These results imply that the rate of speciation of cichlid fish in this tropical lake has been extremely rapid.

引用

页码：1091 / 1093

页数：3

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