| reconciling geography and genealogy: phylogeography of giant freshwater prawns from the lake carpentaria region. | there is convincing geological evidence for the historical existence of an ancient lake on the australian-new guinea continental shelf during the late pleistocene. lake carpentaria was a vast fresh- to brackishwater lake that would presumably have provided habitat for, and facilitated gene flow among, aquatic taxa that tolerate low to moderate salinities in this region. moreover, it has been argued that the outflow of papua new guinea's fly river was diverted westward into lake carpentaria durin ... | 2004 | 15488008 |