Levels of inbreeding are highly variable in natural populations [1, 2]. Inbreeding can be due
to random factors (like population size), limited dispersal, or active mate choice for relatives …

Mbuna, the dominant fishes on the rocky shores of Lake Malawi, have become a major
'model system'for the study of rapid speciation and adaptive radiation. At least 295 putative …

Ancient lakes are often unusually species rich, mostly as a result of radiation and species-
flock formation having taken place in only one or a few of many taxa present. Understanding …

The goal of this study was to evaluate the role of common ancestry, and of geographical or
reproductive isolation, in genetic divergence in populations of threespine sticklebacks …

The importance of species recognition to taxonomic diversity among Lake Malawi cichlids
has been frequently discussed. Hybridization—the apparent breakdown of species …

A critical step for speciation in the face of gene flow is the origination of reproductive
isolation. The evolution of assortative mating greatly facilitates this process. Assortative …

Acanthochromis polyacanthus is an unusual tropical marine damselfish that uniquely lacks
pelagic larvae and has lost the capacity for broad‐scale dispersal among coral reefs. On the …

The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are famously diverse. However, phylogenetic and
population genetic studies of their history have been difficult because of the great amount of …

Extremely fine–scale genetic partitioning has recently been detected among populations of
Lake Malawi's rock–dwelling cichlids through the study of microsatellite loci. Understanding …

Recent studies have suggested that size homoplasy is a prevalent feature of microsatellites
and is expected to increase with time of divergence among populations and taxa. In this …