Genome‐wide RAD sequence data provide unprecedented resolution of species boundaries and relationships in the L ake V ictoria cichlid adaptive radiation

CE Wagner, I Keller, S Wittwer, OM Selz… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Although population genomic studies using next generation sequencing (NGS) data are
becoming increasingly common, studies focusing on phylogenetic inference using these …

Population genomic signatures of divergent adaptation, gene flow and hybrid speciation in the rapid radiation of L ake V ictoria cichlid fishes

I Keller, CE Wagner, L Greuter, S Mwaiko… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive radiations are an important source of biodiversity and are often characterized by
many speciation events in very short succession. It has been proposed that the high …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow

M Malinsky, H Svardal, AM Tyers, EA Miska… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The hundreds of cichlid fish species in Lake Malawi constitute the most extensive recent
vertebrate adaptive radiation. Here we characterize its genomic diversity by sequencing 134 …

The evolutionary genomics of cichlid fishes: explosive speciation and adaptation in the postgenomic era

F Henning, A Meyer - Annual Review of Genomics and Human …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
With more than 1,500 species, cichlid fishes provide textbook examples of recent and
diverse adaptive radiations, rapid rates of speciation, and the parallel evolution of adaptive …

quaddRAD: A new high‐multiplexing and PCR duplicate removal ddRAD protocol produces novel evolutionary insights in a nonradiating cichlid lineage

P Franchini, D Monné Parera, AF Kautt… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of thousands of variants across the genomes and their accurate
genotyping are crucial for estimating the genetic parameters needed to address a host of …

A Hybrid Genetic Linkage Map of Two Ecologically and Morphologically Divergent Midas Cichlid Fishes (Amphilophus spp.) Obtained by Massively Parallel DNA …

H Recknagel, KR Elmer, A Meyer - G3: Genes| Genomes …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Cichlid fishes are an excellent model system for studying speciation and the formation of
adaptive radiations because of their tremendous species richness and astonishing …

Chromosome-scale assemblies reveal the structural evolution of African cichlid genomes

MA Conte, R Joshi, EC Moore, SP Nandamuri… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background African cichlid fishes are well known for their rapid radiations and are a model
system for studying evolutionary processes. Here we compare multiple, high-quality …

High levels of interspecific gene flow in an endemic cichlid fish adaptive radiation from an extreme lake environment

AGP Ford, KK Dasmahapatra, L Rüber… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Studying recent adaptive radiations in isolated insular systems avoids complicating causal
events and thus may offer clearer insight into mechanisms generating biological diversity …

Rapid evolution and selection inferred from the transcriptomes of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes

KR Elmer, S Fan, HM Gunter, JC Jones… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Crater lakes provide a natural laboratory to study speciation of cichlid fishes by ecological
divergence. Up to now, there has been a dearth of transcriptomic and genomic information …

[HTML][HTML] The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents

M Matschiner, A Böhne, F Ronco… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Cichlid fishes are celebrated for their vast taxonomic, phenotypic, and ecological diversity;
however, a central aspect of their evolution—the timeline of their diversification—remains …