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 …

The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Malawi encompasses over 500
species that are believed to have evolved within the last 800,000 years from a common …

Although population genomic studies using next generation sequencing (NGS) data are
becoming increasingly common, studies focusing on phylogenetic inference using these …

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 …

Studying recent adaptive radiations in isolated insular systems avoids complicating causal
events and thus may offer clearer insight into mechanisms generating biological diversity …

Cichlid fishes are remarkably phenotypically diverse and species-rich. Therefore, they
provide an exciting opportunity for the study of the genetics of adaptation and speciation by …

Divergent selection is the main driving force in sympatric ecological speciation and may also
play a strong role in divergence between allopatric populations. Characterizing the genome …

Evolutionary radiations are responsible for much of the variation in biodiversity across taxa.
Cichlid fishes are well known for spectacular evolutionary radiations, as they have …

The question of how genetic variation translates into organismal diversity has puzzled
biologists for decades. Despite recent advances in evolutionary and developmental …

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 …