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 …

The Gobiiformes is one of the most diverse orders of the Percomorphs, with approximately
2000 species in 270 genera. They represent 5 to 10% of all teleosts, with species occurring …

Endemic Ponto-Caspian gobies include a flock of∼ 24 “neogobiin” species (containing the
nominal genera and subgenera Apollonia, Babka, Neogobius, Mesogobius, Ponticola, and …

Abstract The Eurasian round goby Neogobius melanostomus (Apollonia melanostoma)
invaded the North American Great Lakes in 1990 through ballast water, spread rapidly, and …

Here, we combined archived mitochondrial sequences for Ponto-Caspian gobiids with new
sequences from the south Caspian basin to assess and evaluate its gobioid diversity and …

Elucidating the factors that shape species distributions has long been a fundamental goal in
ecology and evolutionary biology. In spite of significant theoretical advancements, empirical …

Phenotypic plasticity buffers organisms from environmental change and is hypothesized to
aid the initial establishment of nonindigenous species in novel environments and …

The potential uses of molecular tools to address issues in invasion biology are reviewed,
including the early detection of novel and cryptic non‐native species, the identification of …

The subfamily Potamotrygoninae, the only extant clade of elasmobranchs exclusive to
freshwater environments, encompasses four genera and 38 species distributed across …

Darwin's elucidation of natural selection as a creative evolu-tionary force was one of the
monumental intellectual achievements in the history of science, not only revolutionizing …