The paradox behind the pattern of rapid adaptive radiation: how can the speciation process sustain itself through an early burst?

CH Martin, EJ Richards - Annual review of ecology, evolution …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Rapid adaptive radiation poses two distinct questions apart from speciation and adaptation:
What happens after one speciation event and how do some lineages continue speciating …

Detecting signatures of positive selection in non-model species using genomic data

H Weigand, F Leese - Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how natural selection shapes genetic variation in populations is of
paramount importance in evolutionary biology. Affordable high-throughput sequencing now …

Searching for sympatric speciation in the genomic era

EJ Richards, MR Servedio, CH Martin - BioEssays, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sympatric speciation illustrates how natural and sexual selection may create new species in
isolation without geographic barriers. However, recent genomic reanalyses of classic …

Integrative population and physiological genomics reveals mechanisms of adaptation in killifish

RS Brennan, TM Healy, HJ Bryant, V La… - Molecular Biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive divergence between marine and freshwater (FW) environments is important in
generating phyletic diversity within fishes, but the genetic basis of this process remains …

Parallel evolution of integrated craniofacial traits in trophic specialist pupfishes

ME St. John, JC Dunker, EJ Richards… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Populations may adapt to similar environments via parallel or non‐parallel genetic changes,
but the frequency of these alternative mechanisms and underlying contributing factors are …

Few Fixed Variants between Trophic Specialist Pupfish Species Reveal Candidate Cis-Regulatory Alleles Underlying Rapid Craniofacial Divergence

JA McGirr, CH Martin - Molecular biology and evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Investigating closely related species that rapidly evolved divergent feeding morphology is a
powerful approach to identify genetic variation underlying variation in complex traits. This …

Jaw size variation is associated with a novel craniofacial function for galanin receptor 2 in an adaptive radiation of pupfishes

MF Palominos, V Muhl, EJ Richards… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the genetic basis of novel adaptations in new species is a fundamental
question in biology. Here we demonstrate a new role for galr2 in vertebrate craniofacial …

A cognitive map in a poison frog

Y Liu, LB Day, K Summers… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT A fundamental question in cognitive science is whether an animal can use a
cognitive map. A cognitive map is a mental representation of the external world, and …