Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFFs) constitute the most diverse continental vertebrate fauna
on Earth, with more than 6,200 named species compressed into an aquatic footprint< 0.5 …

Sexual selection plays several intricate and complex roles in the related processes of local
adaptation and speciation. In some cases sexual selection can promote these processes …

Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only
modern, phylogenetically based classification of the world's fishes. The updated text offers …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

Ecological differences often evolve early in speciation as divergent natural selection drives
adaptation to distinct ecological niches, leading ultimately to reproductive isolation. Although …

Electroreception, the capacity to detect external underwater electric fields with specialised
receptors, is a phylogenetically widespread sensory modality in fishes and amphibians. In …

Understanding the processes of population divergence and speciation remains a core
question in evolutionary biology. For nearly a hundred years evolutionary geneticists have …

Sexual selection is proposed to be an important driver of diversification in animal systems,
yet previous tests of this hypothesis have produced mixed results and the mechanisms …

Many questions in evolutionary biology require the quantification and comparison of rates of
phenotypic evolution. Recently, phylogenetic comparative methods have been developed …