Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Ecology Volume 2012, Article ID 610419, 20 pages doi:10.1155/2012/610419 Research Article Ecological Factors and Diversification among Neotropical Characiforms Castor´ Guisande,1 Patricia Pelayo-Villamil,2 Manuel Vera,3 Ana Manjarres-Hern´ andez,´ 4 Monica´ R. Carvalho,5 Richard P. Vari,6 Luz Fernanda Jimenez,´ 2 Carlos Fernandez,´ 3 Paulino Martınez,´ 3 Edgar Prieto-Piraquive,7 Carlos Granado-Lorencio,7 and Santiago R. Duque4 1 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Vigo, Lagoas-Marcosende, 36200 Vigo, Spain 2 Grupo de Ictiolog´ıa, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A. 1226, Medell´ın, Colombia 3 Departamento de Xen´etica, Facultade de Veterinaria, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus de Lugo, Avenida Carballo Calero s/n 27002 Lugo, Spain 4 Instituto Amazonico´ de Investigaciones (IMANI), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Km 2 v´ıa Tarapaca,´ Leticia, Colombia 5 Instituto de Biolog´ıa, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A. 1226, Medell´ın, Colombia 6 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 159, Washington, DC, USA 7 Departamento de Biolog´ıa Vegetal y Ecolog´ıa, Facultad de Biolog´ıa, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida de Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012-Sevilla, Spain Correspondence should be addressed to Castor´ Guisande,
[email protected] Received 25 August 2011; Revised 4 December 2011; Accepted 31 January 2012 Academic Editor: J. J. Wiens Copyright © 2012 Castor´ Guisande et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Morphological and DNA sequence data has been used to propose hypotheses of relationships within the Characiformes with minimal comparative discussion of causes underpinning the major intraordinal diversification patterns.