Christian Sturmbauer

Nuclear and mitochondrial data reveal different evolutionary processes in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus Tropheus (2007)

Egger, Bernd, Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, Sefc, Kristina M

Abstract Background Cichlid fishes are notorious for their wealth of intra- and interspecific colour pattern diversity. In Lake Tanganyika, the endemic genus Tropheus represents the most impressive...

Reticulate phylogeny of gastropod-shell-breeding cichlids from Lake Tanganyika – the result of repeated introgressive hybridization (2007)

Koblmüller, Stephan, Duftner, Nina, Sefc, Kristina M, Aibara, Mitsuto, Stipacek, Martina, Blanc, Michel, ...

Abstract Background The tribe Lamprologini is the major substrate breeding lineage of Lake Tanganyika's cichlid species flock. Among several different life history strategies found in lamprologines,...

Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis) (2006)

Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, Verheyen, Erik, Meyer, Axel, Salzburger, Walter

Abstract Background Squeaker catfishes (Pisces, Mochokidae, Synodontis ) are widely distributed throughout Africa and inhabit a biogeographic range similar to that of the exceptionally diverse...

Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi

Sugawara, Tohru, Terai, Yohey, Imai, Hiroo, Turner, George F., Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, ...

Many examples of the appearance of similar traits in different lineages are known during the evolution of organisms. However, the underlying genetic mechanisms have been elucidated in very few cases....

Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis)

Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, Verheyen, Erik, Meyer, Axel, Salzburger, Walter

Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi

Sugawara, Tohru, Terai, Yohey, Imai, Hiroo, Turner, George F., Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, ...

Many examples of the appearance of similar traits in different lineages are known during the evolution of organisms. However, the underlying genetic mechanisms have been elucidated in very few cases....

Mitochondrial phylogeny and phylogeography of East African squeaker catfishes (Siluriformes: Synodontis)

Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, Verheyen, Erik, Meyer, Axel, Salzburger, Walter

Reticulate phylogeny of gastropod-shell-breeding cichlids from Lake Tanganyika – the result of repeated introgressive hybridization

Koblmüller, Stephan, Duftner, Nina, Sefc, Kristina M, Aibara, Mitsuto, Stipacek, Martina, Blanc, Michel, ...

Nuclear and mitochondrial data reveal different evolutionary processes in the Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus Tropheus

Egger, Bernd, Koblmüller, Stephan, Sturmbauer, Christian, Sefc, Kristina M

Colour-assortative mating among populations of Tropheus moorii, a cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

Salzburger, Walter, Niederstätter, Harald, Brandstätter, Anita, Berger, Burkhard, Parson, Walther, Snoeks, Jos, ...

The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria are prime examples of adaptive radiation and explosive speciation. Several hundreds of endemic species...

Monogamy in the maternally mouthbrooding Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish Tropheus moorii

Egger, Bernd, Obermüller, Beate, Phiri, Harris, Sturmbauer, Christian, Sefc, Kristina M

Supported by evidence for assortative mating and polygynandry, sexual selection through mate choice was suggested as the main force driving the evolution of colour diversity of haplochromine cichlids...