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EvoDevo, 2023 Cichlid fishes are a very diverse and species-rich family of teleost fishes that inhabit lakes and rivers of India, Africa, and South and Central America.
M. Emília Santos +2 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid radiation is the main source of East African cichlid diversity. Irisarri et al. resolve its phylogenetic backbone using anchored phylogenomics and identify trans-lineage hybridization prior to major speciation bursts and ...
Irisarri, Iker +2 more
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The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents
Nature Communications, 2020 Cichlids are a model for adaptive radiation, but the timing of their diversification is debated. Here the authors assemble 14 cichlid genomes, introduce a Bayesian approach to account for fossil-assignment uncertainty, and present a dated phylogenomic ...
Michael Matschiner +2 more
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The evolution of monogamy in cichlids and marine reef fishes
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Although several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the emergence of social monogamy, its origin is still intensely debated. Monogamy has many potential drivers, but evolutionary causality among them remains unclear.
Emily Stanbrook +3 more
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Gene coexpression networks reveal molecular interactions underlying cichlid jaw modularity
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background The oral and pharyngeal jaw of cichlid fishes are a classic example of evolutionary modularity as their functional decoupling boosted trophic diversification and contributed to the success of cichlid adaptive radiations. Most studies until now
Pooja Singh +2 more
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Early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishes
Nature Communications, 2022 Here, the authors present a rare example of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation, without ploidy changes, in the Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua. Midas cichlid hybrids occupy a different ecological niche, likely facilitated by body shape adaptations.
Melisa Olave +3 more
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The cichlid oral and pharyngeal jaws are evolutionarily and genetically coupled
Nature Communications, 2021 Evolutionary constraints may significantly bias phenotypic change, while “breaking” from such constraints can lead to expanded ecological opportunity.
Andrew John Conith, R Craig Albertson
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Ancient hybridization fuels rapid cichlid fish adaptive radiations
Nature Communications, 2017 Understanding why some evolutionary lineages generate exceptionally high species diversity is an important goal in evolutionary biology. Haplochromine cichlid fishes of Africa’s Lake Victoria region encompass >700 diverse species that all evolved in the ...
David A Marques +2 more
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Unusual Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in African Cichlid Fishes [PDF]
Genes, 2018 African cichlids display a remarkable assortment of jaw morphologies, pigmentation patterns, and mating behaviors. In addition to this previously documented diversity, recent studies have documented a rich diversity of sex chromosomes within these fishes.
William Gammerdinger, Thomas D. Kocher
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The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish
Nature, 2014 Cichlid fishes are famous for large, diverse and replicated adaptive radiations in the Great Lakes of East Africa. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying cichlid phenotypic diversity, we sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five ...
Catherine E Wagner +2 more
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