Speciation in freshwater fishes

O Seehausen, CE Wagner - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The extraordinary species richness of freshwater fishes has attracted much research on
mechanisms and modes of speciation. We here review research on speciation in freshwater …

Extreme environments and the origins of biodiversity: adaptation and speciation in sulphide spring fishes

M Tobler, JL Kelley, M Plath, R Riesch - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms adapted to physiochemical stressors provide ideal systems to study evolutionary
mechanisms that drive adaptation and speciation. This review study focuses on livebearing …

Finding answers in the dark: caves as models in ecology fifty years after Poulson and White

S Mammola - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The use of semi‐isolated habitats such as oceanic islands, lakes and mountain summits as
model systems has played a crucial role in the development of evolutionary and ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations

L Gómez-Nava, RT Lange, PP Klamser, J Lukas… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Groups of animals can perform highly coordinated collective behaviours that confer benefits
to the participating individuals by facilitating social information exchange and protection from …

Epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation changes in fish living in hydrogen sulfide–rich springs

JL Kelley, M Tobler, D Beck… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Environmental factors can promote phenotypic variation through alterations in the
epigenome and facilitate adaptation of an organism to the environment. Although hydrogen …

[HTML][HTML] Gene flow and population structure in the Mexican blind cavefish complex (Astyanax mexicanus)

M Bradic, P Beerli, FJ García-de León… - BMC evolutionary …, 2012 - Springer
Background Cave animals converge evolutionarily on a suite of troglomorphic traits, the best
known of which are eyelessness and depigmentation. We studied 11 cave and 10 surface …

How parallel is parallel evolution? A comparative analysis in fishes

KB Oke, G Rolshausen, C LeBlond… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Evidence of phenotypic parallelism is often used to infer the deterministic role played by
natural selection. However, variation in the extent or direction of divergence is often evident …

The ecological classification of cave animals and their adaptations

FG Howarth, OT Moldovan - Cave ecology, 2018 - Springer
Why certain animals lose features believed essential, like eyes, bodily color, and
robustness, to live permanently underground has long intrigued biologists and laymen …

Do freshwater fishes diversify faster than marine fishes? A test using state-dependent diversification analyses and molecular phylogenetics of new world silversides …

DD Bloom, JT Weir, KR Piller, NR Lovejoy - Evolution, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Freshwater habitats make up only∼ 0.01% of available aquatic habitat and yet harbor 40%
of all fish species, whereas marine habitats comprise> 99% of available aquatic habitat and …

Convergent evolution of conserved mitochondrial pathways underlies repeated adaptation to extreme environments

R Greenway, N Barts, C Henpita… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Extreme environments test the limits of life; yet, some organisms thrive in harsh conditions.
Extremophile lineages inspire questions about how organisms can tolerate physiochemical …