Aquatic Ecology: Publications 2009

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Araki H, Cooper B, Blouin MS. (2009) Carry-over effect of captive breeding reduces reproductive fitness of wild-born descendants in the wild. Biol lett doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0315 (217 KB, pdf)
Baroiller J.F., D'Cotta H, Bezault E, Wessels S, Hoerstgen-Schwark G. (2009) Tilapia sex determination: Where temperature and genetics meet. Comp Biochem Physiol A (Mol Integr Physiol) 153, 30-38 doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.11.018 (421 KB, pdf)
Genner MJ, Knight ME, Haseler MP, Turner GF (2009) Establishment and expansion of Lake Malawi rock fish populations after a dramatic Late Pleistocene lake level rise. MolEcol doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04434.x (771 KB, pdf)
Young KA, Genner MJ, Joyce DA, Haesler MP (2009) Hotshots, hot spots, and female preference: exploring lek formation models with a bower-building cichlid fish. Behavioural Ecology 20, 609-615 (191 KB, pdf)
Keller I, Korner-Nievergelt F, Jenni L (2009) Within-winter movements: a common phenomenon in the common pochard Aythya ferina. J Ornithol 150(2), 483-494 DOI 10.1007/s10336-008-0367-x. (0.6 MB, pdf)
Maan M.E., Cummings M.E. (2009) Sexual dimorphism and directional sexual selection on aposematic signals in a poison frog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 19072-19077 (0.8 MB, pdf) and SI (1,2 MB, pdf)

Magalhaes IS., Mwaiko S., Schneider MV., Seehausen O. (2009) Divergent selection and phenotypic plasticity during incipient speciation in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. J Evolution Biol. 22 (2), 260–274. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01637.x (0.6 MB, pdf)

Hofmann CM, O’Quin KE, Marshall NJ, Cronin TW, Seehausen, O, Carleton KL. (2009) The eyes have it: Regulatory and structural changes both underlie cichlid visual pigment diversity. PlosBiology. (0.6 MB, pdf)
Mzighani SI, Nikaido M, Takeda M, Seehausen O, Budeba YL, Ngatunga BP, Katunzi EFB, Aibara M, Mizoiri S, Sato T, Tachida H, Okada N (2009) Genetic variation and demographic history of the Haplochromis laparogramma Group 2 of Lake Victoria—An analysis based on SINEs and mitochondrial DNA. Gene doi:10.1016/j.gene.2009.10.002 (474 KB, pdf)
Schweizer M, Seehausen O, Güntert M, Hertwig ST. (2009) The evolutionary diversification of parrots supports a taxon pulse model with multiple trans-oceanic dispersal events and local radiations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. (1.2 MB, pdf)
Seehausen O. (2009) Progressive levels of trait divergence along a 'speciation transect' in the Lake Victoria cichlid fish Pundamilia. In Butlin, R., Bridle, J., Schluter, D. Ecological Reviews: Speciation and Patterns of Diversity, Cambridge University Press, 155-176 (2.1 MB, pdf)
Seehausen O. (2009) Speciation affects ecosystems. Nature, 458 (7242), 1122-1123 (1.2 MB, pdf)
Dijkstra P., Hemelrijk C., Seehausen O., Groothuis T. (2009) Colour polymorphism and intrasexual competition in assemblages of cichlid fish. Behav Ecol. 20(1), 138-144 doi:10.1093/beheco/arn125 (106 KB, pdf)

Dijkstra P., van Dijk S, Groothuis T, Pierotti, MER, Seehausen O. (2009)
Behavioral dominance between female color morphs of a Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Behav Ecol 20(3):593-600, doi:10.1093/beheco/arp036 (120 KB, pdf)

Pierotti MER., Martín-Fernández JA., Seehausen O. (2009). Mapping individual variation in male mating preference space: multiple choice in a colour polymorphic cichlid fish. Evolution, doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00716.x (0.6 MB, pdf)

Blais J., Plenderleith M., Rico C., Taylor M.I., Seehausen O., Van Oosterhout C., Turner GF. (2009) Assortative mating among Lake Malawi cichlid fish populations is not simply predictable from male nuptial colour. BMC EvolBiol 9:53. 12pp doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-53 (379 KB, pdf)

Nosil P., Harmon LJ., Seehausen O. (2009) Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation. TREE 24 (3), 145-156 doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.10.011 (1.5 MB, pdf)
Young KA, Snoeks J, Seehausen O. (2009) Morphological Diversity and the Roles of Contingency, Chance and Determinism in African Cichlid Radiations. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4740, 7pp doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004740. (0,6 MB, pdf)
Stelkens, R. B., Schmid C, Selz O, Seehausen O (2009) Phenotypic Novelty in Experimental Hybrids Is Predicted by the Genetic Distance between Species of Cichlid Fish. BMC Evolutionary Biology. (0.6 MB, pdf)
Stelkens R, Young KA, Seehausen O. (2009) The accumulation of reproductive incompatibilities in African cichlid fish. Evolution. (0.7 MB, pdf)
Stelkens R, Seehausen O., (2009) Genetic distance between species predicts novel trait expression in their hybrids. Evo 63-4: 884–897 doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00599.x (357 KB, pdf)
Stelkens R., Seehausen O. (2009) Phenotypic divergence but not genetic distance predicts assortative mating among species of a cichlid fish radiation. J Evolution Biol. 22 (8), 1679-1694 doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01777.x (0.5 MB, pdf)

Vonlanthen P., Roy D., Hudson A., Largiadèr C.R., Bittner D., Seehausen O. (2009) Divergence along a steep ecological gradient in Lake whitefish (Coregonus sp.) J Evolution Biol. 22 (3), 498-514 doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01670.x (425 KB, pdf)
Weber C., Schager E., Peter A. Habitat diversity and fish assemblage structure in local river widenings: A case study on a Swiss river. River Research and Applications 25 (6), 687-701 DOI: 10.1002/rra.1176. (246 MB, pdf)
Woods PJ, Mueller R, Seehausen O. (2009) Intergenomic epistasis causes asynchronous hatch times in whitefish hybrids, but only when parental ecotypes differ. J Evolution Biol.22, 2305-2319 doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01846.x (469 KB, pdf)
Zhu, Wang, Tang, Araki and Tian. (2009) Genome-wide association between insertions/deletions and the nucleotide diversity in bacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26 (10): 2353-2361