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 …

Back to the wilds: tapping evolutionary adaptations for resilient crops through systematic hybridization with crop wild relatives

E Warschefsky, RV Penmetsa, DR Cook… - American journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The genetic diversity of our crop plants has been substantially reduced during the process of
domestication and breeding. This reduction in diversity necessarily constrains our ability to …

Ancient hybridization fuels rapid cichlid fish adaptive radiations

JI Meier, DA Marques, S Mwaiko, CE Wagner… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding why some evolutionary lineages generate exceptionally high species
diversity is an important goal in evolutionary biology. Haplochromine cichlid fishes of Africa's …

Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow

M Malinsky, H Svardal, AM Tyers, EA Miska… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The hundreds of cichlid fish species in Lake Malawi constitute the most extensive recent
vertebrate adaptive radiation. Here we characterize its genomic diversity by sequencing 134 …

The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish

D Brawand, CE Wagner, YI Li, M Malinsky, I Keller… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
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 …

[图书][B] Ecological speciation

P Nosil - 2012 - books.google.com
The origin of biological diversity, via the formation of new species, can be inextricably linked
to adaptation to the ecological environment. Specifically, ecological processes are central to …

Genomic islands of speciation separate cichlid ecomorphs in an East African crater lake

M Malinsky, RJ Challis, AM Tyers, S Schiffels, Y Terai… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The genomic causes and effects of divergent ecological selection during speciation are still
poorly understood. Here we report the discovery and detailed characterization of early-stage …

Phylogenomics uncovers early hybridization and adaptive loci shaping the radiation of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes

I Irisarri, P Singh, S Koblmüller… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Lake Tanganyika is the oldest and phenotypically most diverse of the three East African
cichlid fish adaptive radiations. It is also the cradle for the younger parallel haplochromine …

Ancestral hybridization facilitated species diversification in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish adaptive radiation

H Svardal, FX Quah, M Malinsky… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Malawi encompasses over 500
species that are believed to have evolved within the last 800,000 years from a common …

[HTML][HTML] Colour variation in cichlid fish: developmental mechanisms, selective pressures and evolutionary consequences

ME Maan, KM Sefc - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Cichlid fishes constitute one of the most species-rich families of vertebrates. In addition to
complex social behaviour and morphological versatility, they are characterised by extensive …