Characteristics, main impacts, and stewardship of natural and artificial freshwater environments: consequences for biodiversity conservation

M Cantonati, S Poikane, CM Pringle, LE Stevens… - Water, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all
main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify …

Understanding explosive diversification through cichlid fish genomics

W Salzburger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018‏ - nature.com
Owing to their taxonomic, phenotypic, ecological and behavioural diversity and propensity
for explosive diversification, the assemblages of cichlid fish in the East African Great Lakes …

Adaptive radiation, ecological opportunity, and evolutionary determinism: American Society of Naturalists EO Wilson Award address

JB Losos - The American Naturalist, 2010‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Adaptive radiation refers to diversification from an ancestral species that produces
descendants adapted to use a great variety of distinct ecological niches. In this review, I …

African cichlid fish: a model system in adaptive radiation research

O Seehausen - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2006‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The African cichlid fish radiations are the most diverse extant animal radiations and provide
a unique system to test predictions of speciation and adaptive radiation theory. The past few …

Divergence with gene flow: models and data

C Pinho, J Hey - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2010‏ - annualreviews.org
Since Darwin first proposed that new species could arise without geographic separation,
biologists have debated whether or not divergence occurs in the presence of gene …

Dynamic patterns of adaptive radiation

S Gavrilets, A Vose - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005‏ - pnas.org
Adaptive radiation is defined as the evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity within a
rapidly multiplying lineage. When it occurs, adaptive radiation typically follows the …

Out of Tanganyika: genesis, explosive speciation, key-innovations and phylogeography of the haplochromine cichlid fishes

W Salzburger, T Mack, E Verheyen, A Meyer - BMC evolutionary biology, 2005‏ - Springer
Background The adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes in East Africa are well known for their
spectacular diversity and their astonishingly fast rates of speciation. About 80% of all 2,500 …

Ecology and evolution of the African Great Lakes and their faunas

W Salzburger, B Van Bocxlaer… - Annual Review of …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
The Great Lakes of East Africa are collectively the earth's most remarkable and species-rich
freshwater feature. Intrinsic biological factors and extrinsic ecological opportunities allowed …

Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the haplotilapiine cichlid fishes formerly referred to as “Tilapia”

AR Dunz, UK Schliewen - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2013‏ - Elsevier
African cichlids formerly referred to as” Tilapia” represent a paraphyletic species
assemblage belonging to the so called haplotilapiine lineage which gave rise to the …

Age of cichlids: new dates for ancient lake fish radiations

MJ Genner, O Seehausen, DH Lunt… - Molecular biology …, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
Timing divergence events allow us to infer the conditions under which biodiversity has
evolved and gain important insights into the mechanisms driving evolution. Cichlid fishes …