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 …

[BOOK][B] Mimicry, crypsis, masquerade and other adaptive resemblances

DLJ Quicke - 2017 - books.google.com
Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance Full colour Covers everything from classic
examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human …

Gutsy genetics: identification of digested piscine prey items in the stomach contents of sympatric native and introduced warmwater catfishes via DNA barcoding

R Aguilar, MB Ogburn, AC Driskell, LA Weigt… - … Biology of Fishes, 2017 - Springer
A major focus of ecology is understanding trophic relationships and energy flows in natural
systems, associated food web dynamics and changes in food webs due to introduced …

From crypsis to mimicry: changes in colour and the configuration of the visual system during ontogenetic habitat transitions in a coral reef fish

F Cortesi, Z Musilová, SM Stieb… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Animals often change their habitat throughout ontogeny; yet, the triggers for habitat
transitions and how these correlate with developmental changes–eg physiological …

Comparative transcriptomics of anal fin pigmentation patterns in cichlid fishes

ME Santos, L Baldo, L Gu, N Boileau, Z Musilova… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Understanding the genetic basis of novel traits is a central topic in evolutionary
biology. Two novel pigmentation phenotypes, egg-spots and blotches, emerged during the …

Crab spider lures prey in flowerless neighborhoods

C Vieira, EN Ramires, J Vasconcellos-Neto… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
One fundamental question in prey luring systems is to understand how visual signals are
interpreted by the receiver. Predators lure prey by falsely imitating the signal of a model, or …

The behavioral origins of novelty: did increased aggression lead to scale-eating in pupfishes?

ME St. John, JA McGirr, CH Martin - Behavioral Ecology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Behavioral changes in a new environment are often assumed to precede the origins of
evolutionary novelties. Here, we examined whether an increase in aggression is associated …

Variation of anal fin egg-spots along an environmental gradient in a haplochromine cichlid fish

A Theis, O Roth, F Cortesi, F Ronco, W Salzburger… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Male secondary sexual traits are targets of inter-and/or intrasexual selection, but can vary
due to a correlation with life-history traits or as by-product of adaptation to distinct …

Community assembly in Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish: Quantifying the contributions of both niche‐based and neutral processes

T Janzen, A Alzate, M Muschick, ME Maan… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The cichlid family features some of the most spectacular examples of adaptive radiation.
Evolutionary studies have highlighted the importance of both trophic adaptation and sexual …

Deceptive Seduction by Femme Fatale Fireflies and Its Avoidance by Males of a Synchronous Firefly Species (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

Y Maquitico, J Coronado, A Luna, A Vergara… - Insects, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Predatory female fireflies of several species in the genus Photuris attract
males from other firefly species by responding to their flash signals, and then, the females try …