River capture or ancestral polymorphism: an empirical genetic test in a freshwater fish using approximate Bayesian computation

• Published in: Biological journal of the Linnean Society Vol. 131; no. 3; pp. 575 - 584
• Main Authors: Souza, Mateus S, Thomaz, Andréa T, Fagundes, Nelson J R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 06.11.2020

A headwater or river capture is a phenomenon commonly invoked to explain the absence of reciprocal monophyly of genetic lineages among isolated hydrographic basins in freshwater fish. Under the assumption of river capture, a secondary contact between populations previously isolated in different basi...