Joyce DA, Lunt DH, Genner MJ, Turner GF, Bills R, Seehausen O. (2011) Repeated colonization and hybridization in Lake Malawi cichlids. Current Biology 2011 Feb 8;21(3):R108-9. PMID: 21300271 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.029 (PDF) Through adaptive radiation, ancestral species rapidly diversify into multiple species with different ecological adaptations. The haplochromine...
Genner, M. J., O. Seehausen, D. H. Lunt, D. A. Joyce, P. W. Shaw, G. R. Carvalho, and G. F. Turner (2007) Age of cichlids: New dates for ancient lake fish radiations. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24:1269-1282. PDF doi:10.1093/molbev/msm050 Timing divergence events allow us to infer the conditions...
Joyce, D. A., D. H. Lunt, R. Bills, G. F. Turner, C. Katongo, N. Duftner, C. Sturmbauer, and O. Seehausen (2005) An extant cichlid fish radiation emerged in an extinct Pleistocene lake. Nature 435:90-95. PDF DOI:10.1038/nature03489 The haplochromine cichlid fish of the East African Great Lakes represent...
We are studying gene copy number variation (CNV) in adaptive radiations of cichlids. A fundamental question in biology is what type of genomic changes underlie local adaptation and species radiations. Cichlid fish radiations in the African Great Lakes show extraordinary levels of speciation and ecological...
Just watched "What Darwin Didn't Know" with Armand Leroi as part of the BBC Darwin season. I was looking forward to it but it was a little disappointing. The tone was too sleepy and Victorian. There was some but not enough on what Darwin didn't...
