Search Results - "Meier, Joana I"
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A Combinatorial View on Speciation and Adaptive Radiation
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-06-2019)“…Speciation is often thought of as a slow process due to the waiting times for mutations that cause incompatibilities, and permit ecological differentiation or…”
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Ancient hybridization fuels rapid cichlid fish adaptive radiations
Published in Nature communications (10-02-2017)“…Understanding why some evolutionary lineages generate exceptionally high species diversity is an important goal in evolutionary biology. Haplochromine cichlid…”
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Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback
Published in PLoS genetics (29-02-2016)“…Ecological speciation is the process by which reproductively isolated populations emerge as a consequence of divergent natural or ecologically-mediated sexual…”
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The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation
Published in Nature (London) (01-10-2020)“…Speciation rates vary considerably among lineages, and our understanding of what drives the rapid succession of speciation events within young adaptive…”
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Eukaryote hybrid genomes
Published in PLoS genetics (27-11-2019)“…Interspecific hybridization is the process where closely related species mate and produce offspring with admixed genomes. The genomic revolution has shown that…”
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The coincidence of ecological opportunity with hybridization explains rapid adaptive radiation in Lake Mweru cichlid fishes
Published in Nature communications (03-12-2019)“…The process of adaptive radiation was classically hypothesized to require isolation of a lineage from its source (no gene flow) and from related species (no…”
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Genomic evidence reveals three W-autosome fusions in Heliconius butterflies
Published in PLoS genetics (18-07-2024)“…Sex chromosomes are evolutionarily labile in many animals and sometimes fuse with autosomes, creating so-called neo-sex chromosomes. Fusions between sex…”
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Repeated genetic adaptation to altitude in two tropical butterflies
Published in Nature communications (09-08-2022)“…Repeated evolution can provide insight into the mechanisms that facilitate adaptation to novel or changing environments. Here we study adaptation to altitude…”
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Movement of transposable elements contributes to cichlid diversity
Published in Molecular ecology (01-12-2020)“…African cichlid fishes are a prime model for studying speciation mechanisms. Despite the development of extensive genomic resources, it has been difficult to…”
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Differential introgression of a female competitive trait in a hybrid zone between sex-role reversed species
Published in Evolution (01-02-2019)“…Mating behavior between recently diverged species in secondary contact can impede or promote reproductive isolation. Traditionally, researchers focus on the…”
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A Dense Linkage Map of Lake Victoria Cichlids Improved the Pundamilia Genome Assembly and Revealed a Major QTL for Sex-Determination
Published in G3 : genes - genomes - genetics (01-07-2018)“…Genetic linkage maps are essential for comparative genomics, high quality genome sequence assembly and fine scale quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping. In…”
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Rapid generation of ecologically relevant behavioral novelty in experimental cichlid hybrids
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-07-2020)“…The East African cichlid radiations are characterized by repeated and rapid diversification into many distinct species with different ecological…”
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The Persistence of Polymorphisms across Species Radiations
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-09-2020)“…Studies on polymorphisms have been foundational to our understanding of evolution. The presence of different phenotypic morphs is sometimes considered a…”
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Microclimate buffering and thermal tolerance across elevations in a tropical butterfly
Published in Journal of experimental biology (16-04-2020)“…Microclimatic variability in tropical forests plays a key role in shaping species distributions and their ability to cope with environmental change, especially…”
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Demographic modelling with whole‐genome data reveals parallel origin of similar Pundamilia cichlid species after hybridization
Published in Molecular ecology (01-01-2017)“…Modes and mechanisms of speciation are best studied in young species pairs. In older taxa, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what happened during…”
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Identification of a novel sex determining chromosome in cichlid fishes that acts as XY or ZW in different lineages
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-09-2021)“…Sex determination systems are highly conserved among most vertebrates with genetic sex determination, but can be variable and evolve rapidly in some. Here, we…”
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Genomics and the origin of species
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-03-2014)“…Key Points Speciation is a central and fundamental process in evolution that concerns the origin of reproductive isolation. The latest generation of genomic…”
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Adaptive Introgression across Semipermeable Species Boundaries between Local Helicoverpa zea and Invasive Helicoverpa armigera Moths
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-09-2020)“…Abstract Hybridization between invasive and native species has raised global concern, given the dramatic increase in species range shifts and pest outbreaks…”
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Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaptive radiations in African cichlids
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-09-2023)“…Although some lineages of animals and plants have made impressive adaptive radiations when provided with ecological opportunity, the propensities to radiate…”
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Haplotype tagging reveals parallel formation of hybrid races in two butterfly species
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-06-2021)“…Genetic variation segregates as linked sets of variants or haplotypes. Haplotypes and linkage are central to genetics and underpin virtually all genetic and…”
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