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From: The origin of the parrotfish species Scarus compressus in the Tropical Eastern Pacific: region-wide hybridization between ancient species pairs

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The evolutionary assembly of the Scarus species complex in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP). Photographs illustrate phenotypic differences among species and colour phases. Top row: terminal phase fish (TP); Bottom row: initial phase fish (IP). Pruned species phylogeny and node ages (with 95% HPDs) adapted from [36] with permission. The two clades are colour coded by their most parsimonious biogeographic origin, see text for details. Scarus perrico and S. compressus are endemic to the TEP, while the other two species occur across the Indian and Pacific oceans. Photo credits: Andy Murch—IP and TP S. ghobban, IP and TP S. compressus, and IP phase of S. perrico. Kendall Clements—TP S. perrico and IP S. rubroviolaceus. D. Ross Robertson—TP S. rubroviolaceus

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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