BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Hybridization produces novelty when the mapping of form to function is many to one

Nicholas F Parnell1, C Darrin Hulsey2 and J Todd Streelman1*

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1 School of Biology Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Georgia Institute of Technology 310 Ferst Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA

2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:122 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-122

Published: 28 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

Average KT, trophic group and GenBank accession numbers for all species used in this study. Trophic groups are defined as in Hulsey et al. [30].

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Additional file 2:

Planktivores have higher KT, on average, than other trophic groups. Trophic groups are defined as in Hulsey et al. [30]; [see also Additional file 1]. The bar is the median value, the box is the 25th-75th percentile, whiskers are the 10th and 90th percentiles and the dots are outliers beyond the 5th and 95th percentiles.

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Additional file 3:

Bayesian phylogenetic hypothesis for Lake Malawi cichlids, derived from the mitochondrial ND2 gene, and used to generate phylogenetically independent correlations among link lengths and links with KT. Posterior probability values are given for selected nodes.

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