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Kallman, K.D., Walter, R.B., Morizot, D.C., and S. Kazianis (2004) " Two new species of Xiphophorus (Poeciliidae), from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexicio, with a Discussion of the Distribution of the X. clemenciae Clade." American Museum Novitates, 3441:1-34.
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Cui, R., Schumer, M., Kruesi, K., Walter, R., Andolfatto, P., and G. Rosenthal (2013) Phylogenomics reveals extensive reticulate evolution in Xiphophorus fishes. Evolution, 67(8): 216-2179.
Kang Hyoun, J., Schartl,M., Walter, R.B., and A. Meyer (2013) Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of all species of swordtails and platies (genus Xiphophorus) uncover a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13:25-44.
Yingjia Shen, Domitille Chalopin, Tzintzuni Garcia, Mikki Boswell, William Boswell, Sergey A. Shiryev, Richa Agarwala, Jean-Nicolas Volff, John H. Postlethwait, Manfred Schartl, Patrick Minx, Wesley C. Warren and Ronald B. Walter. (2016). BMC Genomics 17:37. DOI 10.1186/s12864-015-2361-z
Manfred Schartl, Yingjia Shen, Katja Maurus, Ronald Walter, Chad Tomlinson, Richard K. Wilson, John Postlethwait, Wesley C. Warren. (2015). PLOS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0143057
Funding to maintain and enhance the XGSC is primarily from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs, Division of Comparative Medicine (R24-011120, R. Walter, PI).
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