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| Title |
The strange case of East African annual fishes: aridification correlates with diversification for a savannah aquatic group?
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12862-014-0210-3 |
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| Authors |
Alexander Dorn, Zuzana Musilová, Matthias Platzer, Kathrin Reichwald, Alessandro Cellerino |
| Abstract |
Annual Nothobranchius fishes are distributed in East and Southern Africa and inhabit ephemeral pools filled during the monsoon season. Nothobranchius show extreme life-history adaptations: embryos survive by entering diapause and they are the vertebrates with the fastest maturation and the shortest lifespan. The distribution of Nothobranchius overlaps with the East Africa Rift System. The geological and paleoclimatic history of this region is known in detail: in particular, aridification of East Africa and expansion of grassland habitats started 8 Mya and three humid periods between 3 and 1 Mya are superimposed on the longer-term aridification. These climatic oscillations are thought to have shaped evolution of savannah African mammals. We reconstructed the phylogeny of Nothobranchius and dated the different stages of diversification in relation to these paleoclimatic events. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 80 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 20% |
| Researcher | 16 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 14% |
| Unknown | 10 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 46 | 55% |
| Environmental Science | 13 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 1% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 12 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 November 2014.
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#7,778,510
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#1,778
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#78,860
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#28
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