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Testing the performance of environmental DNA metabarcoding for surveying highly diverse tropical fish communities: A case study from Lake Tanganyika

open access: yesEnvironmental DNA, 2020
Background and Aims Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding provides a highly sensitive method of surveying freshwater fish communities, although studies to date have largely been restricted to temperate ecosystems.
Christopher J. Doble   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chickens First\ud \ud Speciation by “Hopeful Monsters” in Fraternal Supertwins\ud [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The idea of “hopeful monster” was proposed by Goldschmidt who envisioned that speciation could occur instantaneously via major chromosomal rearrangement in a one-step process; but he could not unravel how similar individual in the opposite sex to appear ...
Zhang, Dr. Jianyi
core  

Molecular mechanisms underlying nuchal hump formation in dolphin cichlid, Cyrtocara moorii

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2019
East African cichlid fishes represent a model to tackle adaptive changes and their connection to rapid speciation and ecological distinction. In comparison to bony craniofacial tissues, adaptive morphogenesis of soft tissues has been rarely addressed ...
L. A. Lecaudey   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disentangling Complex Histories of Hybridisation: The Genomic Consequences of Ancient and Recent Introgression in Channel Island Monkeyflowers

open access: yesMolecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 21, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Hybridisation is a common feature of evolutionary radiations, but its genomic consequences vary depending on when it occurs. Since reproductive isolation takes time to accumulate, hybridisation can occur at multiple points during divergence. Previous studies suggested that the taxonomic diversity in evolutionary radiations can help infer the ...
Aidan W. Short, Matthew A. Streisfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Population Genetics and Gene Flow in Cyphotilapia frontosa and Cyphotilapia gibberosa Along the East Coast of Lake Tanganyika

open access: yesFishes
The radiation of cichlid species in the East African Great Lakes is remarkable and rapid. The population genetics of two deep-water Cyphotilapia species along the east coast of Lake Tanganyika from Burundi to southern Tanzania was determined using ddRAD ...
George D. Jackson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lessons from a natural experiment: Allopatric morphological divergence and sympatric diversification in the Midas cichlid species complex are largely influenced by ecology in a deterministic way

open access: yesEvolution Letters, 2018
Explaining why some lineages diversify while others do not and how are key objectives in evolutionary biology. Young radiations of closely related species derived from the same source population provide an excellent opportunity to disentangle the ...
Andreas F. Kautt   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Agouti-related peptide 2 facilitates convergent evolution of stripe patterns across cichlid fish radiations

open access: yesScience, 2018
Showing their stripes The adaptive radiation of East African cichlids has led to more than 1200 species across a number of lakes. Across these species, many convergent traits have emerged, including the presence or absence of horizontal stripes ...
Claudius F. Kratochwil   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genetic and developmental origins of a unique foraging adaptation in a Lake Malawi cichlid genus

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Significance Biologists have long been captivated by novel traits because they provide insights into both the origin of and constraints on morphological variation. The iconic adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes have led to incredible diversity of form,
M. R. Conith   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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