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On the basis of faunistic and floristic inventories, various authors have developed the forest refuge theory to explain species diversity in humid tropical regions. Renno et al. (1990) used electrophoretic markers to study the genetic structure of Leporinus friderici and suggested the existence of an aquatic refuge on the Guiana shield. In the present study, mitochondrial markers (RFLP) confirmed and complemented the previous electrophoretic study. Four multimorphs were evidenced, allowing the populations to be separated into two sets on either side of the eastern edge of the Guiana refuge, i.e. the Kourou river region in French Guiana.
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Renno, J.E., Machordom, A., Blanquer, A. et al. Polymorphism of mitochondrial genes in populations of Leporinus friderici (Bloch, 1794): intraspecific structure and zoogeography of the Neotropical fish. Genetica 84, 137–142 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116554
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