Salzburger, Walter, Renn, Susan CP, Steinke, Dirk, Braasch, Ingo, Hofmann, Hans A, Meyer, Axel
Abstract Background The cichlid fishes in general, and the exceptionally diverse East African haplochromine cichlids in particular, are famous examples of adaptive radiation and explosive speciation....
Salzburger, Walter, Braasch, Ingo, Meyer, Axel
Abstract Background The exceptionally diverse species flocks of cichlid fishes in East Africa are prime examples of parallel adaptive radiations. About 80% of East Africa's more than 1 800 endemic...
Siegel, Nicol, Hoegg, Simone, Salzburger, Walter, Braasch, Ingo, Meyer, Axel
Abstract Background The evolutionary lineage leading to the teleost fish underwent a whole genome duplication termed FSGD or 3R in addition to two prior genome duplications that took place earlier...
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...
Many genes in fish have species-specific asymmetric rates of molecular evolution (2006)
Steinke, Dirk, Salzburger, Walter, Braasch, Ingo, Meyer, Axel
Abstract Background Gene and genome duplication events increase the amount of genetic material that might then contribute to an increase in the genomic and phenotypic complexity of organisms during...
Abila, Romulus, Salzburger, Walter, Ndonga, Millicent Florence, Owiti, Dickson Otieno, Barluenga, Marta
Lake Kanyaboli (Kenya), a satellite lake of Lake Victoria, has been suggested as a potential refugium for haplochromine cichlids that have gone extinct in Lake Victoria. We employed mitochondrial DNA...
Salzburger, Walter, Mack, Tanja, Verheyen, Erik, Meyer, Axel
Abstract Background The adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes in East Africa are well known for their spectacular diversity and their astonishingly fast rates of speciation. About 80% of all 2,500...
Many genes in fish have species-specific asymmetric rates of molecular evolution
Steinke, Dirk, Salzburger, Walter, Braasch, Ingo, Meyer, Axel
Phylogeography of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and the origin of the Gibraltar colony
Modolo, Lara, Salzburger, Walter, Martin, Robert D.
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is the earliest offshoot of the genus Macaca and the only extant African representative, all other species being Asiatic. Once distributed throughout North...
Phylogeography of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and the origin of the Gibraltar colony
Modolo, Lara, Salzburger, Walter, Martin, Robert D.
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is the earliest offshoot of the genus Macaca and the only extant African representative, all other species being Asiatic. Once distributed throughout North...
Many genes in fish have species-specific asymmetric rates of molecular evolution
Steinke, Dirk, Salzburger, Walter, Braasch, Ingo, Meyer, Axel
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...
TaxI: a software tool for DNA barcoding using distance methods
Steinke, Dirk, Vences, Miguel, Salzburger, Walter, Meyer, Axel
DNA barcoding is a promising approach to the diagnosis of biological diversity in which DNA sequences serve as the primary key for information retrieval. Most existing software for evolutionary...