Ecological opportunity, genetic variation, and the origins of African cichlid radiations

CE Wagner - The behavior, ecology and evolution of cichlid fishes, 2021 - Springer
Genetic and genomic data for African cichlids have accumulated over the past decades
along with an increase in data available on the composition and species richness of cichlid …

Explosive speciation and adaptive radiation of East African cichlid fishes

C Sturmbauer, M Husemann, PD Danley - … Hotspots: Distribution and …, 2011 - Springer
Cichlid fishes are the most species-rich group of all teleost fishes. Their diversity is centered
in the East African Great Lakes where more than 2,000 species evolved within the past 10 …

Multiple cases of striking genetic similarity between alternate electric fish signal morphs in sympatry

ME Arnegard, SM Bogdanowicz, CD Hopkins - Evolution, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Striking trait polymorphisms are worthy of study in natural populations because they can
often shed light on processes of phenotypic divergence and specialization, adaptive …

Genetic detection of cryptic species in the frillfin goby Bathygobius soporator

D Lima, JEP Freitas, ME Araujo… - Journal of Experimental …, 2005 - Elsevier
We compared, through allozyme and cytochrome b sequence analyses, populations of
Bathygobius soporator from four localities on the Brazilian coast with those from the Oceanic …

Establishment and expansion of Lake Malawi rock fish populations after a dramatic Late Pleistocene lake level rise

MJ Genner, ME Knight, MP Haesler… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Major environmental events that fragment populations among multiple island habitats have
potential to drive large‐scale episodes of speciation and adaptive radiation. A recent …

Biophysics and population size constrains speciation in an evolutionary model of developmental system drift

BS Khatri, RA Goldstein - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Developmental system drift is a likely mechanism for the origin of hybrid incompatibilities
between closely related species. We examine here the detailed mechanistic basis of hybrid …

Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and mating compatibility reveal marked genetic structuring and speciation in the NE Atlantic bryozoan Celleporella hyalina

A Gómez, RN Hughes, PJ Wright… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The marine bryozoan Celleporella hyalina is a species complex composed of many highly
divergent and mostly allopatric genetic lineages that are reproductively isolated but share a …

Old fish in a young lake: stone loach (Pisces: Barbatula barbatula) populations in Lake Constance are genetically isolated by distance

M Barluenga, A Meyer - Molecular ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The genetic structure of 10 populations (453 individuals) of stone loach (Barbatula barbatula
L.), a small bottom‐dwelling cyprinid fish, in the littoral zone of Lake Constance, central …

Phylogeny and phylogeography of Altolamprologus: ancient introgression and recent divergence in a rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus

S Koblmüller, B Nevado, L Makasa, M Van Steenberge… - Hydrobiologia, 2017 - Springer
Stenotopic specialization to a fragmented habitat promotes the evolution of genetic structure.
It is not yet clear whether small-scale population structure generally translates into large …

Divergent selection and phenotypic plasticity during incipient speciation in Lake Victoria cichlid fish

IS Magalhaes, S Mwaiko, MV Schneider… - Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Divergent selection acting on several different traits that cause multidimensional shifts are
supposed to promote speciation, but the outcome of this process is highly dependent on the …