Owing to their taxonomic, phenotypic, ecological and behavioural diversity and propensity
for explosive diversification, the assemblages of cichlid fish in the East African Great Lakes …

Cichlid fishes are hypothesized to encompass several independent adaptive radiations that
display increased diversification rates and impressive ecological heterogeneity. Here, I …

Vertebrate vision is accomplished through light-sensitive photopigments consisting of an
opsin protein bound to a chromophore. In dim light, vertebrates generally rely on a single …

The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living …

Mountain systems harbor a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and, thus, provide
excellent opportunities to study rapid diversification and to understand the historical …

Most contemporary studies of adaptive radiation focus on relatively recent and
geographically restricted clades. It is less clear whether diversification of ancient clades …

The present work is part of a process to create a Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of
Colombia and consisted in the depuration and updating of the taxonomic and geographic …

Divergence-time estimation based on molecular phylogenies and the fossil record has
provided insights into fundamental questions of evolutionary biology. In Bayesian node …

Although attempts to understand C entral A merican freshwater fish provincialism date to the
1960s, early efforts lacked the wealth of distributional data now available. Biogeographic …

The contrasting distribution of species diversity across the major lineages of cichlids makes
them an ideal group for investigating macroevolutionary processes. In this study, we …