Rapid adaptive radiation poses two distinct questions apart from speciation and adaptation:
What happens after one speciation event and how do some lineages continue speciating …

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

Understanding the extent to which ecological divergence is repeatable is essential for
predicting responses of biodiversity to environmental change. Here we test the predictability …

Ecological opportunity is considered a crucial factor for adaptive radiation. Here, we
combine genetic, morphological and ecological data to assess species and …

Adaptive radiations have been hypothesized to contribute broadly to the diversity of
organisms. Models of adaptive radiation predict that ecological opportunity and ecological …

Explaining why some lineages diversify while others do not and how are key objectives in
evolutionary biology. Young radiations of closely related species derived from the same …

Abstract The Nicaraguan Midas cichlid species complex is a natural experiment where fish
from a large source population from turbid and shallow great lakes very recently (< 20,000 …

Aim High repeatability among assemblages of closely related but ecologically distinct
ecotypes implies predictability in evolution and assembly of communities. The conditions …

Background Color polymorphisms are a conspicuous feature of many species and a way to
address broad ecological and evolutionary questions. Three potential major evolutionary …

Adaptive radiation research typically relies on the study of evolution in retrospective, leaving
the predictive value of the concept hard to evaluate. Several radiations, including the cichlid …