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 …

▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

Cichlid fishes are amazing creatures. In terms of sheer number of species, they are the most
successful of all families of vertebrate animals, and the extent and speed with which they …

▪ Abstract Cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Teleostei) found in the lakes of Africa have served as
model systems for the study of evolution. The enormous number of species (1000 in Lake …

Rapid evolutionary radiations provide insight into the fundamental processes involved in
species formation. Here we examine the diversification of one such group, the cichlid fishes …

Abstract With more than 3,000 species, the fish family Cichlidae is one of the most species-
rich families of vertebrates. Cichlids occur in southern and central America, Africa …

Lake Tanganyika, the oldest of the East African Great Lakes, harbors the ecologically,
morphologically, and behaviorally most complex of all assemblages of cichlid fishes …

Water level fluctuations are important modulators of speciation processes in tropical lakes, in
that they temporarily form or break down barriers to gene flow among adjacent populations …

Speciation caused by introgressive hybridization occurs frequently in plants but its
importance remains controversial in animal evolution. Here we report a case of introgressive …

Distance, currents, deep water and sub‐zero temperatures isolate the waters of the Antarctic
continental shelf from other shelf areas in the Southern Hemisphere. The Antarctic shelf is …