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Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all species of swordtails and platies (Pisces: Genus Xiphophorus) uncovers a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus, and demonstrates that the sexually selected sword originated in the ancestral lineage of the genus, but was lost again secondarily

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Altmetric score 19
  • 7 tweeters
  • 2 Facebook pages
  • 2 news outlets
  • 13 Wikipedia page
  • 122 Mendeley

This article is in the 93rd percentile (ranked 18,093rd) of the 290,732 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 90th percentile (ranked 7th) of the 72 tracked articles of a similar age in BMC Ecology and Evolution

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